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Pro_10:20 The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.
Ver. 20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver.] He scattereth "pearls," {Mat_7:6} he throws abroad "treasure," {Mat_12:35} even "apples of gold in shrines of silver." {Pro_25:11} "I will turn to the people a pure language," saith God, {Zep_3:9} a "lip of excellency," {Pro_17:7} the language of heaven. As William the Conqueror sought to bring in the French tongue here, by enjoining children to use no other in schools, lawyers to practise in French; no man was graced but he that spake French, &c. {a}
The heart of the wicked is little worth.] Est quasi parum, is as little as need to be. He is ever either hatching cockatrice’ eggs or weaving spiders’ webs, as the prophet hath it. {Isa_59:5} Vanity or villainy is his whole study, and his daily discourse.
{a} Daniel’s Hist.