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Matthew Henry's Commentary – Chapter 10
Chapter 10
- Verse 1
- Verses 2–3
- Verse 4
- Verse 5
- Verse 6
- Verse 7
- Verse 8
- Verse 9
- Verse 10
- Verse 11
- Verse 12
- Verse 13
- Verse 14
- Verse 15
- Verse 16
- Verse 17
- Verse 18
- Verse 19
- Verses 20–21
- Verse 22
- Verse 23
- Verses 24–25
- Verse 26
- Verses 27–28
- Verses 29–30
- Verses 31–32
Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are distichs, two sentences in one verse, illustrating each other; but it is seldom that there is any coherence between the verses, much less any thread of discourse, and therefore in these chapters we need not attempt to reduce the contents to their proper heads, the several sentences will appear best in their own places. The scope of them all is to set before us good and evil, the blessing and the curse. Many of the proverbs in this chapter relate to the good government of the tongue, without which men’s religion is vain.