KJV ORIGINAL
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
The words of a righteous person are like precious silver, but the heart of a wicked person has little value.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse is contrasting the valuable, pure words that come from good people with the worthless inner character of evil people.
📚 Historical Context
This proverb comes from a collection of wise sayings attributed to King Solomon, written around 950 BC during Israel's golden age. In ancient times, silver was carefully refined and highly valued as currency and for making precious items, so comparing righteous speech to choice silver would have been immediately understood as describing something pure and valuable.
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