Proverbs 10:6 {7}
Good News Translation
Good people will receive blessings. The words of the wicked hide a violent nature.

New Revised Standard Version
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone praises good people, but evil hides behind the words of the wicked.

New American Bible
Blessings are for the head of the just; but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.

blessings

Proverbs 11:26 Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.

Proverbs 24:25 They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.

Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.

Job 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

2 Timothy 1:16-18 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain: . . .

violence

Proverbs 10:11 Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.

Esther 7:8 And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.

Psalm 107:42 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Context
Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son
5The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but iniquity covereth the mouth of the wicked. 6The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.7The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:5
The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but iniquity covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:11
Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.

Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

Obadiah 1:10
And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

Proverbs 10:5
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