The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
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Gill's Exposition
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,.... Scatter it about for the benefit of others; they are communicative and diffusive of it unto others, that fruit may abound to their account: so the first…
Barnes' Notes
Not so - The word translated “so” is taken by some in its etymological force as “strong,” “firm,” and the passage is rendered “the heart of the fool disperseth (supplied from the first clause) what is…
Matthew Henry
This is to the same purport with Pro 15:2, and shows what a blessing a wise man is and what a burden a fool is to those about him. Only here observe further, 1. That we then use knowledge aright when…
Cambridge Bible
doeth not so So R.V. text, with the alternative in the marg. is not stedfast, or right. Maurer, however, renders (repeating dispersefrom the first clause) that which is not right; and compares the use…
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