Proverbs 10:20

“The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver, etc.] Which utters things precious, pure, pleasant, and profitable; things for worth and value as choice silver; the doctrines of the Gospel, the power of which he has felt upon his heart; the precious promises of it, which have been applied unto him; and the rich experience of grace he has been favoured with: things pure and incorrupt, like silver free from dross; as the doctrines of grace, fetched out of the mines of the sacred Scripture, free from the dross of error, without any human mixture; consistent and all of a piece, and which tend to purity of heart and life; things the reverse of a corrupt communication, nothing filthy and unclean; a…”

“Right speech is the fruit of a good heart, but the wicked show theirs to be useless.”

“The tongue, the instrument of the mind is contrasted with the heart or mind itself, the just with the wicked, the choice silver with the worthless “little,” the Hebrew word being possibly taken in its primary sense as a “filing” or “scraping” of dross or worthless metal. If the tongue is precious, how much more the mind! If the heart is worthless, how much more the speech! return to 'Top of Page'”

“Is - Of great worth and use. Heart - And consequently the tongue. Proverbs 10:21”

“10:20 Words are an expression of the heart.”

“tongue: Pro 12:18, Pro 15:4, Pro 16:13, Pro 25:11, Pro 25:12; Mat 12:35 the heart: Pro 23:7; Gen 6:5, Gen 8:21; Jer 17:9; Mat 12:34 Proverbs 10:21”

“20 Choice silver is the tongue of the righteous; But the heart of the godless is little worth. Choice silver is, as Pro 8:19, cf. 10, pure, freed from all base mixtures. Like it, pure and noble, is whatever the righteous speaks; the heart, i.e., the manner of thought and feeling, of the godless is, on the contrary, like little instar nihili, i.e., of little or no worth, Arab. yasway kâlyla (Fl.). lxx: the heart of the godless ἐκλείψει, i.e., ימעט, at first arrogant and full of lofty plans, it becomes always the more dejected, discouraged, empty. But 20a leads us to expect some designation of its worth. The Targ. (according to which the Peshito is to be corrected; vid., Levy's Wrterbuch,…”