--- title: "Proverbs 10 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Proverbs 10 with trapps complete commentary 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/trapps-complete-commentary/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 [Pro 10:1](/kjv/pro/10/1) The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother. Ver. 1. **The Proverbs.** ] Properly so called. See [Proverbs 1:1](/kjv/proverbs/1/1) . For the nine former chapters are a kind of common places, or continued discourses premised as a preface to these ensuing wise and grave sentences, tending much to the information of the mind and reformation of the manners, and containing things profitable for all sorts of people. They are not unfitly compared by a divine to a bag full of sweet and fragrant spices, which shuffled or shaken together, or taken single, yield a sweet odour; or to stars in the firmament, each in itself glorious and independent of another, yet all receive their light from the sun. **** **A wise son maketh a glad father.** ] Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts. *a* Every son should be an Abner, that is, his father’s light; and every daughter an Abigail, her father’s joy. Eve promised herself much in her Cain, and David did the like in his Absalom. *Sed, fallitur augurio spes bona saepe suo,* - they were both deceived. Samuel succeeds Eli in his cross, as well as his place, though not in his sin; and had cause enough to call his untoward children, as Augustus did, *tres vomicas, tria carcinomata,* - so many ulcerous sores, mattery imposthumes. *b* Virtue is not as lands, inheritable. All that is traduced with the seed is either evil, or not good. Let parents labour to mend by education what they have marred by propagation; and when they have done all, pray "God persuade Japhet," lest else they be put to wish one day, as Augustus did, Oh that I had never married, or never had children! *c* And let children cheer up their parents, as Joseph, Samuel, and Solomon did; and as Epaminondas, who was wont to say, *Se longe maximum suarum laudum fructum capere quod earum spectatores haberet parentes,* *d* - that he joyed in nothing more than that his parents were yet alive, to take comfort in his brave achievements; for otherwise God will take them in hand, as he did Abimelech, to whom he "rendered the wickedness done to his father";[Jdg 9:5](/kjv/-jdg/9/5) and as he did Absalom, whom he trussed up in the height of his rebellious practices with his own immediate hand; or else he will punish them in and by their posterity, which shall either be none ([Proverbs 20:20](/kjv/proverbs/20/20) ,[compared with 2Sa 14:7](/kjv/-compared-with-2sa/14/7) ), or worse than none; as he who, when his aggrieved father complained that never man had so undutiful a child as he had, Yes, said his son (with less grace than truth), my grandfather had. *e* **** **The heaviness of his mother.** ] The mother is mentioned (though the father haply as heavy) first, as most faulted if her children miscarry;[Pro 24:15](/kjv/-pro/24/15) next, as most slighted by them;[Pro 15:20](/kjv/-pro/15/20) and lastly, as most impatient of such an affliction. Rebekah was weary of her life by reason of the daughters of Heth brought in to her by Esau.[Gen 27:46](/kjv/-gen/27/46) If they lie idle at home, mothers have the misery of it; if they do worse abroad, the worst is made of it to the mother at home by fame, that loud liar. *a* φροντιδες μεγδλαι, ελπιδες αδηλοι . - *Plut.* *b* A purulent swelling or cyst in any part of the body; an abscess. *c* Sueton, cap. 6. *d* Corn. 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