20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-21)We are here taught how to value men, not by their wealth and preferment in the world, but by their virtue. I. Good men are good for something. Though they may be poor and low in the world, and may not have power and riches to do good with, yet, as long as they have a mouth to speak, that will make them valuable and useful, and upon that account we must honour those that fear the Lord, because out…
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