Proverbs 22:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Proverbs 22:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 2:10
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 17-21)

Solomon here changes his style and manner of speaking. Hitherto, for the most part, since the beginning of Prov. 10:1; he had laid down doctrinal truths, and but now and then dropped a word of exhortation, leaving us to make the application as we went along; but here, to the end of Prov. 22:17-24:34; he directs his speech to his son, his pupil, his reader, his hearer, speaking as to a particular p…

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

(vv. 18)

18. These lessons must be laid up in the mind, and fitted--or better, “fixed” in the lips so as to be ever ready.