10 Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.
11 Those who love a pure heart and are gracious in speech will have the king as a friend.
12 The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
13 The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!"
14 The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.
16 Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.
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.