Verse 20

What the righteous say is like the best silver, but what the wicked think is of little value.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 12:18 : 18 Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
• Prov 15:4 : 4 Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.
• Prov 16:13 : 13 The delight of a king is righteous counsel, and he will love the one who speaks uprightly.
• Prov 23:7 : 7 for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
• Prov 25:11-12 : 11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken. 12 Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.
• Jer 17:9 : 9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
• Matt 12:34-35 : 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart. 35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
• Gen 6:5 : 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself,“I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
• Prov 8:19 : 19 My fruit is better than the purest gold, and my harvest is better than choice silver.