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Proverbs 10:20

The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

KJV

Argentum electum lingua justi ; cor autem impiorum pro nihilo.

Vulgate

ἄργυρος πεπυρωμένος γλῶσσα δικαίου, καρδία δὲ ἀσεβοῦς ἐκλείψει.

LXX

The tongue of the righteous isaschoice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.

ASV

כֶּ֣סֶף נִ֭בְחָר לְשׁ֣וֹן צַדִּ֑יק לֵ֖ב רְשָׁעִ֣ים כִּ/מְעָֽט

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בָּחַ֣ר
bchr
verb · 168×
י
y
noun · 591×
כֶּ֣סֶף
ksp
noun · 402×
ם
m
noun · 116×
מְעַ֣ט
m't
noun · 101×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eccl 10:12 — The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
  • Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Luke 6:45 — A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
  • Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Matt 12:35 — A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
  • Matt 13:52 — Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
  • Prov 8:10 — Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
  • Prov 8:19 — My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
  • Prov 10:11 — The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
  • Prov 10:31 — The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
  • Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  • Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.