Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief,.... That does not do his errand right, nor deliver his message faithfully; such an one falls from the degree of honour in which he was into disgrace; he loses…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
Here we have, 1. The ill consequences of betraying a trust. A wicked messenger, who, being sent to negotiate any business, is false to him that employed him, divulges his counsels, and so defeats his…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
falleth Hitzig and others, by a slight change of vowels, read bringeth, sc. those who sent him, which contrasts better with the bringing of health, or well-beingby the faithful messenger. Comp. Pro…
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