4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
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4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
4 A healed tongue `is' a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.
4 Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, But deceit in it crushes the spirit.
4 A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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Commentary on Proverbs 15 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
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 with a proverb regarding the treasure in which blessing is found, and that in which no blessing is found.
Proverbs 15:1
1 A soft answer turneth away wrath,
And a bitter word stirreth up anger.
In the second line, the common word for anger ( אף , from the breathing with the nostrils, Proverbs 14:17) is purposely placed, but in the first, that which denotes anger in the highest degree ( חמה from יחם , cogn. חמם , Arab. hamiya , to glow, like שׁנה from ישׁן ): a mild, gentle word turns away the heat of anger ( excandescentiam ), puts it back, cf. Proverbs 25:15. The Dagesh in רּך follows the rule of the דחיק , i.e. , of the close connection of a word terminating with the accented eh, aah, ah with the following word ( Michlol 63b). The same is the meaning of the Latin proverb:
Frangitur ira gravis
Quando est responsio suavis