SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:21
Los labios del justo apacientan a muchos; mas los locos con falta de entendimiento mueren.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. The lips of the righteous feed many , etc.] Not their bodies; words are but wind, and will not feed; it is not enough to say to the distressed, “be ye warmed and filled”, and give nothing; unless this can be understood of obtaining food for others by their prayers, as Jarchi interprets it: but the souls of many; these the righteous feed, by communicating the spiritual knowledge and understanding of divine things they are partakers of; by setting before them the bread of life, the honey and milk of the Gospel, they have under their tongue; and by the good counsel and advice, comforts and admonitions, they give them; (see Jeremiah 3:15 Song of Solomon 4:11); but fools die for want of wisdom : not a corporeal death, which is common to men of every rank and quality; wise men die even as fools; but they continue under the power of a spiritual death, for want of enlightening and quickening grace, and so die an eternal death: not for want of natural wisdom, which they may have a greater share of than those who live spiritually and eternally; but for want of spiritual wisdom and knowledge; the knowledge of Christ, and the way of life and salvation by him, and the knowledge of God in Christ; and not always for the want of the means of such wisdom and knowledge; as the Scriptures, which are able to make a man wise unto salvation; and the Gospel, which is the wisdom of God in a mystery; but through the neglect and contempt of them: though sometimes men perish through want of the means of knowledge, and the neglect of those who should instruct them, ( Hosea 4:6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20, 21 - The tongue of the just is sincere, freed from the dross of guile an evil design. Pious discourse is spiritual food to the needy. Fools di for want of a heart, so the word is; for want of thought.
Original Hebrew
שׂפתי 8193 צדיק 6662 ירעו 7462 רבים 7227 ואוילים 191 בחסר 2638 לב 3820 ימותו׃ 4191
