The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
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Gill's Exposition
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life,.... Like a fountain of living water, continually running and flowing with water, wholesome, reviving, and refreshing; so the righteous man's mouth, out…
Barnes' Notes
Compare Pro 10:6. Streams of living water (like the “fountain of living waters” of Jer 2:13; Jer 17:13, and the “living water” of Joh 4:10), flow from the mouth of the righteous, but that of the…
Matthew Henry
See here, 1. How industrious a good man is, by communicating his goodness, to do good with it: His mouth, the outlet of his mind, is a well of life; it is a constant spring, whence issues good…
Cambridge Bible
violence covereth&c. See Pro 10:10, note. The former (a) of the meanings suggested there best suits the parallelism here.
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