Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
BSB
ASV
The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.
KJV
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
ON LANGUAGE (465)
When I read the Proverbs today, I began with this sentence: "The tongue of the righteous is tried silver." I said, If the tongue of the righteous is choice silver, the tongue of the wicked is most polluted. What is more choice or what is …
The heart of the wicked is little worth - כמעט kimat, is like little or nothing; or is like dross, while the tongue of the just is like silver. A sinner’s heart is worth nothing, and is good for nothing; and yet because it is his most hidden part, he vaunts of its honesty, goodness, etc.! Yes, yes; it is very honest and good, only the devil is in it! that is all.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and…
He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
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Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
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Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
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Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
