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Amsal 15:4
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Lidah lembut adalah pohon kehidupan, tetapi lidah curang melukai hati.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
A wholesome: Heb. The healing of the, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 16:24, Malachi 4:2
a tree: Proverbs 3:18, Genesis 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:3, Revelation 2:7
a breach: Proverbs 18:8, Proverbs 18:14, Proverbs 26:22, Psalms 52:2-4, Psalms 109:22
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:20 - tongue Proverbs 10:21 - feed Proverbs 11:30 - fruit Matthew 12:35 - good man Colossians 4:6 - your
Cross-References
And I wyll blesse her, and geue thee a sonne of her: yea, I wyll blesse her, and she shalbe [a mother] of nations, yea & kynges of people shall sprynge of her.
And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.
And when thy dayes be fulfilled, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and I will set vp thy seede after thee, whiche shall proceede out of thy body, and will stablyshe his kingdome.
And Dauid sayde to Abisai, and to all his seruautes, Behold, my sonne which came of myne owne bowels, seketh my lyfe: How much more then may this sonne of Iemini do it? Suffre him to curse, for the Lorde hath bidden him.
And the Lord sent an angel, which destroyed all the men of warre and the lordes and captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, that he turned his face againe with shame towarde his owne lande: And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came of his owne body slue him there with the sworde.
But brethren, we are after Isaac the chyldren of promise.
Whom I haue sent agayne: Thou therefore receaue hym, that is, myne owne bowels,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life,.... A tongue that delivers out salutary instructions, wholesome advice and counsel; a "healing tongue" w, as it may be rendered, which pacifies contending parties, and heals the divisions between them; to have the benefit of such a man's company and conversation is like being in paradise. Such is the tongue of a Gospel minister, which delivers out the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ; sound speech and doctrines, which cannot be condemned; healing truths to wounded consciences, such as peace, pardon, righteousness, and atonement by the blood of Christ. These are the means of quickening dead sinners, reviving and comforting distressed ones, and show the way of eternal life unto them;
but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit; impure, unchaste, unsavoury, and corrupt language, does mischief to the spirits of men; evil communications corrupt the heart and manners, defile the soul and the conversation; these and unsound doctrines eat as a canker; and as they make the heart of God's people sad, whom he would not have made sad; so they bring distress and despair into the spirits of others, and make sad wounds and breaches there, which are never healed, and that both in the spirits of speakers and hearers; for damnable heresies bring swift destruction on the propagators of them, and them that receive them.
w מרפא "sanans", so some in Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A wholesome tongue - literally, as in the margin, the same word as “sound” in Proverbs 14:30 (see the note). A more literal rendering would be soundness of speech.
Tree of life - Compare Proverbs 3:18 note.
Breach in the spirit - With the sense of vexation (compare Isaiah 65:14).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 15:4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life — Here again is an allusion to the paradisiacal tree, עץ חיים ets chaiyim, "the tree of lives."
