Teks -- Proverbs 15:2 (NET)

15:2 The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.

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Wesley: Pro 15:2 - Aright

Expressing what he knows prudently and gracefully.

Wesley: Pro 15:2 - Poureth out

Plentifully, continually, and vehemently, as a fountain does waters.

JFB: Pro 15:2 - useth . . . aright

Commends knowledge by its proper use.

JFB: Pro 15:2 - poureth out

Utters abundantly (Pro 12:23), and so disgusts others.

Clarke: Pro 15:2 - Useth knowledge aright

Useth knowledge aright - This is very difficult to know: - when to speak, and when to be silent; what to speak, and what to leave unspoken; the manner that is best and most suitable to the occasion, the subject, the circumstances, and the persons. All these are difficulties, often even to the wisest men. Even wise counsel may be foolishly given.

TSK: Pro 15:2 - tongue // poureth

tongue : Pro 15:23, Pro 15:28, Pro 12:23, Pro 13:16, Pro 16:23, Pro 25:11, Pro 25:12; Psa 45:1; Ecc 10:12, Ecc 10:13; Isa 50:4

poureth : Heb. belcheth, or, bubbleth, Psa 59:7

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Poole: Pro 15:2 - Useth knowledge aright // Poureth out

Useth knowledge aright expressing what he knows prudently and gracefully; taking due care both what, and when, and to whom, and in what manner he speaks.

Poureth out plentifully, continually, promiscuously, and vehemently, as a fountain doth waters, as this word signifies.

Haydock: Pro 15:2 - Knowledge

Knowledge. It requires to be proposed in a proper manner.

Gill: Pro 15:2 - The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright // but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright,.... As the heart of a wise and good man is filled with useful knowledge, civil, moral, spiritual, and evangelical; so he takes care to communicate it, at proper times and seasons, in proper places, and to proper persons; adapting it to their case and circumstances, so as it may be for their comfort, edification, and instruction, and minister grace unto them; which is using knowledge "well", as the word ^s signifies: such an use of it recommends it, and makes it appear beautiful and lovely, decorates and adorns it. Thus every good man, out of the good treasure of knowledge in his heart, brings forth his good things seasonably, to the use of edifying; in like manner, ministers of the word, scribes well instructed in the things of God, bring forth both new and old, to the profit of those to whom they minister; so Christ, as man and Mediator, had the tongue of the learned, to speak a word in season to weary souls;

but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness; their knowledge, as they take it to be, but it is no other than folly; this they throw out in great plenty, in a hurry, without fear or wit; they "babble" it out, as the word ^t signifies, as water out of a fountain; their hearts are full of it, and their mouths proclaim it, Pro 12:23.