The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 10:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

He that winketh with the eye (Proverbs 6:13). This is a sign of craft, malice, and complicity with other wicked comrades. Ec Proverbs 27:22, "He that winketh with the eyes worketh evil." Causeth sorrow (Proverbs 15:13).

He causes trouble and vexation by his cunning and secrecy. A prating fool (as Proverbs 27:8). The two clauses are intended to teach that the garrulous fool is even more certain to bring ruin on himself and others than the crafty plotter.

The Septuagint and Syriac have changed the latter clause into a sentence supposed to be more forcibly antithetical, "He who reproveth with boldness maketh peace." But there are sentences not strictly antithetical in this chapter, e.

g. Proverbs 27:18, Proverbs 27:22 (comp. Proverbs 11:10).

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