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Proverbs 14:7

Proverbs 14:7

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

See here, 1. How we may discern a fool and discover him, a wicked man,

for he is a foolish man. If we perceive not in him the lips of

knowledge, if we find there is no relish or savour of piety in his

discourse, that his communication is all corrupt and corrupting, and

nothing in it good and to the use of edifying, we may conclude the

treasure is bad. 2. How we must decline such a one and depart from him:

Go from his presence, for thou perceivest there is no good to be gotten

by his company, but danger of getting hurt by it. Sometimes the only

way we have of reproving wicked discourse and witnessing against it is

by leaving the company and going out of the hearing of it.

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