Proverbs 10:10
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New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He who winks the eye causes trouble, And a babbling fool will be ruined.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Whoever winks with his eye causes heartache. The one who talks foolishly will be thrown down headfirst.

King James Bible
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Verse 10

Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you, when at the same time he is watching an opportunity to do you an ill turn, that makes signs to his accomplices when to come into assist him in executing his wicked projects, which are all carried on by trick and artifice, causes sorrow both to others and to himself. Ingenuity will be no excuse for iniquity, but the sinner must either repent or do worse, either rue it or be ruined by it. 2. Public, silly, self-exposing sinners: A prating fool, whose sins go before unto judgment, shall fall, as was said before, v. 8. But his case is less dangerous of the two, and, though he destroys himself, he does not create so much sorrow to others as he that winks with his eyes. The dog that bites is not always the dog that barks.

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