11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
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A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
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.
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-12)Solomon here shows how much it becomes a man, 1. To speak pertinently: A word upon the wheels , that runs well, is well-circumstanced, in proper time and place—instruction, advice, or comfort, given seasonably, and in apt expressions, adapted to the case of the person spoken to and agreeing with the character of the person speaking— is like golden balls resembling apples , or like true apples of a…
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