
Text -- Proverbs 10:10 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 10:10
JFB -> Pro 10:10
JFB: Pro 10:10 - -- Two vices contrasted; hypocrisy, or insinuating evil against one (Pro 6:13; Psa 35:19), and rashness of speech. In each case, the results are on the e...
Clarke -> Pro 10:10
Clarke: Pro 10:10 - -- He that winketh with the eye - Instead of the latter clause, on which see Pro 10:8, the Septuagint has, ὁ δε ελεγχων μετα παῥ...
He that winketh with the eye - Instead of the latter clause, on which see Pro 10:8, the Septuagint has,
TSK -> Pro 10:10

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Barnes -> Pro 10:10
Barnes: Pro 10:10 - -- In Pro 10:8 the relation between the two clauses was one of contrast, here of resemblance. Cunning, reticence, and deceit (Pro 6:12 note) bring sorr...
Poole -> Pro 10:10
Poole: Pro 10:10 - -- That winketh with the eye that secretly and cunningly designs mischiefs against others, as this phrase is used, Psa 35:19 Pro 6:13 .
Causeth sorrow ...
That winketh with the eye that secretly and cunningly designs mischiefs against others, as this phrase is used, Psa 35:19 Pro 6:13 .
Causeth sorrow to others, and afterwards to himself.
But or, and , as it is in the Hebrew; for vice is not here opposed to virtue, as it is in many other proverbs, but one vice is compared with another.
A prating fool who is so far from such deceits, that he runs into the other extreme, and uttereth all his mind , as is said of the fool, Pro 29:11 , and thereby speaks many things offensive to others, and mischievous to himself.
Haydock -> Pro 10:10
Haydock: Pro 10:10 - -- Sorrow. Septuagint add, "to men as well as to himself." (Calmet) ---
"But he who chides boldly shall make peace," (Haydock) or "work safety," as t...
Sorrow. Septuagint add, "to men as well as to himself." (Calmet) ---
"But he who chides boldly shall make peace," (Haydock) or "work safety," as the Syriac and Arabic also read, instead of Hebrew, "a prating fool shall fall." "When a man connives at his friend's failings,...the offender is encouraged to sin on, and to heap up matter for very sorrowful reflections; but the man, who with an honest freedom, prudently reproves him, most effectually contrives his honour and safety." The consequences of a virtuous and a vicious friendship, seem to be also expressed in the next verse. Thus the latter hemistic generally illustrates the first. But here, part of ver. 8. may be improperly inserted. The two parts of the verses in Proverbs, &c., being arranged in distinct columns, has occasioned sometimes a part, and sometimes a whole verse, to be omitted, as the transcriber might mistake the line. (Kennicott)
Gill -> Pro 10:10
Gill: Pro 10:10 - -- He that winketh with the eye,.... The Syriac and Arabic versions add, "with fraud". A descriptive character of a wicked man, Pro 6:13; who so does, ei...
He that winketh with the eye,.... The Syriac and Arabic versions add, "with fraud". A descriptive character of a wicked man, Pro 6:13; who so does, either to draw and allure persons to go along with him, and join him in his evil practices; or by way of scorn and contempt of others; or as a token to another of its being the proper time to circumvent his neighbour, or do him an injury. Such an one
causeth sorrow; to himself in the issue, however he may for the present please himself with his evil doings; and to others, whom he allures and deceives. The Arabic version is, "heaps afflictions" or "sorrows on men"; whom he corrupts and draws into his evil company and conversation;
but a prating fool shall fall; or, "be taken", as the Targum; or "beaten", as the Vulgate Latin; See Gill on Pro 10:8.

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NET Notes: Pro 10:10 Heb “the fool of lips”; cf. NASB “a babbling fool.” The phrase is a genitive of specification: “a fool in respect to lip...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 10:10
Geneva Bible: Pro 10:10 He that ( e ) winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a ( f ) prating fool shall fall.
( e ) That bears a fair countenance and imagines mischief in ...

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TSK Synopsis -> Pro 10:1-32
TSK Synopsis: Pro 10:1-32 - --1 From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.
MHCC -> Pro 10:10
Matthew Henry -> Pro 10:10
Matthew Henry: Pro 10:10 - -- Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you, when ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 10:10
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 10:10 - --
This verse contains another proverb, similarly formed, parallel with the half of Pro 10:8 :
He that winketh with the eye causeth trouble;
And a fo...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 10:1-14
Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16
Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...
