10 Cast out a scorner—and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.
11 Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace 'are' his lips, a king 'is' his friend.
12 The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
13 The slothful hath said, 'A lion 'is' without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
14 A deep pit 'is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
16 He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich—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.