The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
We are here taught how to value men, not by their wealth and preferment in the world, but by their virtue.
I. Good men are good for something. Though they may be poor and low in the world, and may not…
Cambridge Bible
tongue … heart The force of the antithesis lies in these two words: even the tongueof the one, but the very heartof the other.
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