Proverbs 10:20 (BSB)

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:20-21: We are here taught how to value men, not by their wealth and preferment in the world, but by their virtue. I. Good men are good for something. Though they may be poor and low in the world, and may not have power and riches to do good with, yet, as long as they have a mouth to speak, that will make them valuable and...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:20: The tongue of the just is as choice silver,.... 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:20: Right speech is the fruit of a good heart, but the wicked show theirs to be useless.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:20: Pro 10:20 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....