10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
11 He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 22:10-16
Commentary on Proverbs 22:10
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Profane scoffers and revilers disturb the peace.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:11
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God will be the Friend of a man in whose spirit there is no guile; this honour have all the saints.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:12
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God turns the counsels and designs of treacherous men to their own confusion.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:13
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The slothful man talks of a lion without, but considers not his real danger from the devil, that roaring lion within, and from his own slothfulness, which kills him.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:14
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The vile sin of licentiousness commonly besots the mind beyond recovery.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:15
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Sin is foolishness, it is in the heart, there is an inward inclination to sin: children bring it into the world with them; and it cleaves close to the soul. We all need to be corrected by our heavenly Father.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:16
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We are but stewards, and must distribute what God intrusts to our care, according to his will.