Verse 11
11. A well of life Comp, Proverbs 13:14; Proverbs 18:4. A fountain continually sending forth refreshing and wholesome speech. But violence, etc. This is the same as the latter clause of Proverbs 10:6, which see.
Covereth Perhaps the meaning of the word here is over-spreads, spreads abroad, or covers over, as the waters do the sea, in which the idea of abundance exists. The verb is in the intensive form. If, with some, we take pi, “mouth,” as the nominative, we can make out the antithesis; but the mouth of the wicked covers over with (spreads abroad) violence, injury; that is, does great injury; in opposition to the good which is done by the mouth of the righteous. On first clause compare Psalms 37:30; Ephesians 4:29; Ecclesiastes 10:12; Matthew 12:34; James 3:5-6.
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