--- title: "Proverbs 10 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Proverbs 10 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: bu" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/proverbs/10" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/10)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/10)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/10) Audio 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son *is* the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.* 4 He becometh poor that dealeth *with* a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 5 He that gathereth in summer *is* a wise son: *but* he that sleepeth in harvest *is* a son that causeth shame. 6 Blessings *are* upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7 The memory of the just *is* blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. 8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.** 9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.* 11 The mouth of a righteous *man is* a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. 13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod *is* for the back of him that is void of understanding.* 14 Wise *men* lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish *is* near destruction. 15 The rich man’s wealth *is* his strong city: the destruction of the poor *is* their poverty. 16 The labour of the righteous *tendeth* to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. 17 He *is in* the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.* 18 He that hideth hatred *with* lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, *is* a fool. 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips *is* wise. 20 The tongue of the just *is as* choice silver: the heart of the wicked *is* little worth. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.* 22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. 23 *It is* as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so *is* the wicked no *more:* but the righteous *is* an everlasting foundation. 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so *is* the sluggard to them that send him. 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.* 28 The hope of the righteous *shall be* gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. 29 The way of the LORD *is* strength to the upright: but destruction *shall be* to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked *speaketh* frowardness.* [Proverbs 9](/study/proverbs/9) [Proverbs 11](/study/proverbs/11) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***[Proverbs 10:1](/kjv/proverbs/10/1)*****.*****The proverbs of Solomon*****—** Here properly the book of Proverbs begins: What has gone before is a kind of preface or introduction to the work. Solomon has exhorted his disciple to the study of wisdom, by the most interesting motives; the beauty, the utility, the necessity of wisdom. He has shewn him the dangers which they run who neglect it: he has cautioned him against debauchery and libertinism. After this he comes to those moral sentences which were his principal design. See the introductory note to this book. There is a great variety in these sentences; which are generally delivered by way of antithesis; i.e. comparing opposites one with another. No great connexion is to be expected in them; their instruction is various and extensive, almost every verse being a lesson by itself. Bishop Hall has been at great pains to digest and methodize these proverbs, which he has done under the heads of *ethics, politics,*and *economics.*See the first volume of his works, p. 181. ***A wise son maketh a glad father*****—** This first sentence seems not to have been casually set forth in the front of the rest; because nothing contributes so much to the happiness of mankind, as a religious care about the education of children; which parents are here admonished to attend to, if they desire their children should not prove a grief and shame to them. Lord Bacon thinks that the *gladness*and *heaviness*which are in fathers and mothers, according as their children prove good or bad, are here so accurately distinguished by Solomon, that he would represent a wise and well-governed son, to be chiefly a *comfort*to the father, who knows the value of wisdom better perhaps than the mother (which account the Hebrews also give of this matter), and therefore rejoices more at the towardliness of his son; which he not only better understands, but has taken perhaps so much care about his education, that the good fruits of it give him a greater joy than they can do to the mother. She, on the other side, is more *grieved*and *discomforted*at the calamity of the son; both because the affection of a mother is more soft and tender, and perhaps because she may be conscious to herself that by too much indulgence she hath tainted and corrupted his tender years. 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