Proverbs 10:17 "He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth." In today’s culture, when we want to express our view that someone is trending towards success, ...  Read More

Proverbs 10:16 "The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin." The proverbs are often written as an Observation in order to provide some Information that will ultimately...  Read More

Proverbs 10:15 "The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty." Not all of Solomon’s proverbs are instructional but they are all informative.  Not all of Solom...  Read More

Proverbs 10:14 "Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction." This proverb could be paraphrased by the idiom, “loose lips sink ships.” This proverb is not about obtaini...  Read More

Proverbs 10:13 "In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding." Right around 1600, William Shakespeare wrote his longest pl...  Read More

Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." There are a wide variety of feelings that the human heart is capable of entertaining.  On one end of the spectrum of these feel...  Read More

Proverbs 10:11 "The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." This proverb possesses the picture of something that was far more valuable to Solomon’s ...  Read More

Proverbs 10:10 "He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall." This proverb is the rare case where vice is not contrasted with virtue but instead with vice.  This proverb...  Read More

Proverbs 10:9 "He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known." Recently, I threw my back out and when I do that, I don’t walk “uprightly.”  Instead, I walk t...  Read More

Proverbs 10:8 "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall." Solomon used a Hebrew word in this verse that the translators for the King James Version rendered “prating.”...  Read More

Proverbs 10:6-7 "Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot." The contrast between ...  Read More

Proverbs 10:4-5 "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that cau...  Read More