Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 12:18
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Proverbs12:18
18. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword : but the tongue of the wise is health .
Hurtful and pernicious words, whereby they either corrupt mens minds and manners, or scandalize them, or injure them in their Reputation, Estate, or Life, or otherwise.
His speech both in judgment, and in common discourse, is found and wholesom in it self, and tending to the comfort and benefit of others.
Marginal references: Ps. 57. 4. & 59. 7.; Or, healing. So Gr.
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