Proverbs 10:12 (BSB)

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:12: Here is, 1. The great mischief-maker, and that is malice. Even where there is no manifest occasion of strife, yet hatred seeks occasion and so stirs it up and does the devil's work. Those are the most spiteful ill-natured people that can be who take a pleasure in setting their neighbours together by the ears, by tale-bearing, evil surmises, and misrepresentations, blowing up the sparks...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:12: Hatred stirreth up strifes,.... A man, whose heart is full of hatred and malice against his neighbour, will stir up, or awake, as the word (d) signifies, contentions and quarrels which were happily laid asleep; these he renews by tale bearing, and whisperings, and evil surmises; by raising lies, spreading false reports and calumnies, and by virulent reproaches and slanders; but love covereth all sins...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:12: strifes--or, "litigations." covereth--by forgiveness and forbearance.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:12: Pro 10:12 Another proverb of the different effects of hatred and of love: Hate stirreth up strife, And love covereth all transgressions. Regarding מדנים, for which the Kerı̂ elsewhere substitutes מדינים, vid., under Pro 6:14. Hatred of one’s neighbour, which is of itself an evil, has further this bad effect, that it calls forth hatred, and thus stirreth up strife, feuds, factions, for it incites man against man (cf.