28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-28)There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men; two sorts of such are here described:—1. Such as envy a man the honour of his good name, and do all they can to blast that by calumnies and misrepresentations: They dig up evil ; they take a great deal of pains to find out something or other on which to ground a slander, or…
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