Kawikaan 10:20

Filipino Cebuano Bible

20 Ang dila sa tawong matarung ingon sa piniling salapi: Ang kasingkasing sa tawong dautan diyutay ra ug bili.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tongue: Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 15:4, Proverbs 16:13, Proverbs 25:11, Proverbs 25:12, Matthew 12:35

the heart: Proverbs 23:7, Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21, Jeremiah 17:9, Matthew 12:34

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:37 - the thing Psalms 71:24 - My tongue Proverbs 8:10 - General Proverbs 10:11 - mouth of a Proverbs 10:31 - mouth Proverbs 15:7 - the heart Proverbs 18:21 - Death Proverbs 20:15 - but Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Song of Solomon 4:3 - lips Matthew 13:52 - which Luke 6:45 - good man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver,.... Which utters things precious, pure, pleasant, and profitable; things for worth and value as choice silver; the doctrines of the Gospel, the power of which he has felt upon his heart; the precious promises of it, which have been applied unto him; and the rich experience of grace he has been favoured with: things pure and incorrupt, like silver free from dross; as the doctrines of grace, fetched out of the mines of the sacred Scripture, free from the dross of error, without any human mixture; consistent and all of a piece, and which tend to purity of heart and life; things the reverse of a corrupt communication, nothing filthy and unclean; a pure language, the language of Canaan; the language of repentance, faith, and love, of prayer and thankfulness: things which are grateful and acceptable, are with grace, and minister grace to the hearers; things profitable and edifying; for the righteous man's mouth speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment; and his lips feed many, as in Proverbs 10:21; see Psalms 37:30;

the heart of the wicked [is] little worth; good for nothing, as the Vulgate Latin version. The righteous man's tongue is better than the wicked man's heart; there is no good thing in his heart naturally; all manner of evil is in it, and comes out of it; no sin can be named but what is in his heart; all that is in it is sinful; the thoughts of it, and the imagination of his thoughts, are only evil, and that continually; the affections are inordinate, and set on sinful lusts and pleasures; the mind and conscience are defiled with sin; the understanding is darkened with it, and the will is obstinate and perverse, and bent upon it: his heart is wicked, and exceedingly wicked; it is wickedness itself, very wickedness, desperately wicked, incurably so without the grace of God. Such therefore know not their hearts who say they have good hearts; and they are fools that trust in them: this shows the necessity of regeneration, and that powerful and efficacious grace is requisite to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The tongue, the instrument of the mind is contrasted with the heart or mind itself, the just with the wicked, the choice silver with the worthless “little,” the Hebrew word being possibly taken in its primary sense as a “filing” or “scraping” of dross or worthless metal. If the tongue is precious, how much more the mind! If the heart is worthless, how much more the speech!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 10:20. 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, c.! Yes, yes it is very honest and good, only the devil is in it! that is all.