
Text -- Proverbs 15:4 (NET)




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Which utters sound and useful counsels.

Wesley: Pro 15:4 - -- Is greatly useful to preserve the present life, and to promote the spiritual and eternal life, both of the speaker and hearers.
Is greatly useful to preserve the present life, and to promote the spiritual and eternal life, both of the speaker and hearers.

Disturbs and wounds the spirits, both of the speaker and hearers.
(Compare Margin), pacifying and soothing language.
Clarke -> Pro 15:4
Clarke: Pro 15:4 - -- A wholesome tongue is a tree of life - Here again is an allusion to the paradisiacal tree, עץ חיים ets chaiyim , "the tree of lives."
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life - Here again is an allusion to the paradisiacal tree,
Defender -> Pro 15:4
TSK -> Pro 15:4
TSK: Pro 15:4 - -- A wholesome : Heb. The healing of the, Pro 12:18, Pro 16:24; Mal 4:2
a tree : Pro 3:18; Gen 3:22-24; 1Ti 6:3; Rev 2:7
a breach : Pro 18:8, Pro 18:14, ...
A wholesome : Heb. The healing of the, Pro 12:18, Pro 16:24; Mal 4:2
a tree : Pro 3:18; Gen 3:22-24; 1Ti 6:3; Rev 2:7
a breach : Pro 18:8, Pro 18:14, Pro 26:22; Psa 52:2-4, Psa 109:22

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Barnes -> Pro 15:4
Barnes: Pro 15:4 - -- A wholesome tongue - literally, as in the margin, the same word as "sound"in Pro 14:30 (see the note). A more literal rendering would be soundn...
Poole -> Pro 15:4
Poole: Pro 15:4 - -- A wholesome tongue which uttereth sound, and comfortable, and useful counsels, is a tree of life; is greatly useful to preserve the present life, and...
A wholesome tongue which uttereth sound, and comfortable, and useful counsels, is a tree of life; is greatly useful to preserve the present life, and to promote the spiritual and eternal life, both of the speaker and hearers.
Perverseness therein all sorts of false or corrupt speeches,
is a breach in the spirit disturbs and wounds, and ofttimes corrupts and destroys, the spirits or souls, both of the speaker and hearers.
Haydock -> Pro 15:4
Haydock: Pro 15:4 - -- Life. This comparison was become proverbial for something very excellent. Immoderate. Hebrew, "perverse." (Calmet) ---
Evil discourse kills th...
Life. This comparison was become proverbial for something very excellent. Immoderate. Hebrew, "perverse." (Calmet) ---
Evil discourse kills the souls both of those who speak, and of those who pay attention to it. (Haydock)
Gill -> Pro 15:4
Gill: Pro 15:4 - -- A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,.... A tongue that delivers out salutary instructions, wholesome advice and counsel; a "healing tongue" w, as it...
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,.... A tongue that delivers out salutary instructions, wholesome advice and counsel; a "healing tongue" w, as it may be rendered, which pacifies contending parties, and heals the divisions between them; to have the benefit of such a man's company and conversation is like being in paradise. Such is the tongue of a Gospel minister, which delivers out the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ; sound speech and doctrines, which cannot be condemned; healing truths to wounded consciences, such as peace, pardon, righteousness, and atonement by the blood of Christ. These are the means of quickening dead sinners, reviving and comforting distressed ones, and show the way of eternal life unto them;
but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit; impure, unchaste, unsavoury, and corrupt language, does mischief to the spirits of men; evil communications corrupt the heart and manners, defile the soul and the conversation; these and unsound doctrines eat as a canker; and as they make the heart of God's people sad, whom he would not have made sad; so they bring distress and despair into the spirits of others, and make sad wounds and breaches there, which are never healed, and that both in the spirits of speakers and hearers; for damnable heresies bring swift destruction on the propagators of them, and them that receive them.

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MHCC -> Pro 15:4
MHCC: Pro 15:4 - --A good tongue is healing to wounded consciences, by comforting them; to sin-sick souls, by convincing them; and it reconciles parties at variance.
Matthew Henry -> Pro 15:4
Matthew Henry: Pro 15:4 - -- Note, 1. A good tongue is healing, healing to wounded consciences by comforting them, to sin-sick souls by convincing them, to peace and love when i...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 15:1-6
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 15:1-6 - --
We take these verses together as forming a group which begins with a proverb regarding the good and evil which flows from the tongue, and closes wit...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 14:1--15:33
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...
