Proverbs 15:7 (BSB)

The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:7: This is to the same purport with Pro 15:2, and shows what a blessing a wise man is and what a burden a fool is to those about him. Only here observe further, 1. That we then use knowledge aright when we disperse it, not confine it to a few of our intimates, and grudge it to others who would make as good use of...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:7: The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,.... Scatter it about for the benefit of others; they are communicative and diffusive of it unto others, that fruit may abound to their account: so the first ministers of the Gospel diffused the savour of the knowledge of Christ and his Gospel in every place; their words went into all the earth, and their sound to the end...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:7: (Compare Pro 10:20-21). heart . . . not so--not right, or vain.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:7: Pro 15:7 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; But the direction is wanting to the heart of fools. It is impossible that לא־כן can be a second object. accus. dependent on יזרוּ (dispergunt, not יצּרוּ, Pro 20:28; φυλάσσουσι, as Symmachus translates): but the heart of fools is unrighteous (error or falsehood) (Hitzig after Isa 16:6); for then why were the lips of the...