Proverbs 15:23
“A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!”
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Cross-References
“The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.”
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.”
“The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.”
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”