Proverbs 15:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

Proverbs 15:23 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. …
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Proverbs 16:13
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23)

Note, 1. We speak wisely when we speak seasonably: The answer of the mouth will be our credit and joy when it is pertinent and to the purpose, and is spoken in due season, when it is needed and will be regarded, and, as we say, hits the joint. Many a good word comes short of doing the good it might have done, for want of being well-timed. Nor is any thing more the beauty of discourse than to have…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. Good advice blesses the giver and receiver.