Proverbs 10:11-19

¹¹The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

¹²Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

¹³In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

¹⁴Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

¹⁵The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

¹⁶The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

¹⁷He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

¹⁸He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

¹⁹In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.