Barnes' Notes on Proverbs 10:6

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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Covereth ... - The meaning is perhaps, the violence which the wicked has done is as a bandage over his mouth, reducing him to a silence and shame, like that of the leper Leviticus 13:45; Micah 3:7 or the condemned criminal Esther 7:8, whose “face is covered.” return to 'Top of Page'

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