Proverbs 10:10 · World English Bible
Proverbs 10:10 Meaning One Winking with the Eye Causes Sorrow
One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
What does Proverbs 10:10 mean?
The sidelong glance is judgment made small and secret, the mind's quiet decision to see fault in another and share the condemnation without a word. Sorrow follows it because every hidden accusation is guilt kept alive, and a mind that winks at fault in someone else is only rehearsing its case against itself.
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The sidelong glance is judgment made small and secret, the mind's quiet decision to see fault in another and share the condemnation without a word. Sorrow follows it because every hidden accusation is guilt kept alive, and a mind that winks at fault in someone else is only rehearsing its case against itself.
The loud defense and the silent sneer are the same choice wearing different faces, each a refusal of the correction that would bring peace. Whether it insists aloud or judges in secret, the fearful mind stumbles, for it clings to grievance instead of laying it down, and grievance is the one thing that keeps it from rest.
Eye: the mind's faculty of seeing, here narrowed to a secret glance of judgment that shares condemnation and keeps its own guilt alive Prating fool: the mind that will not stop defending itself, refusing the correction that would end its sorrow and bring it peace
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Live Proverbs 10:10 today
- When a thought lands about someone and you feel that small private satisfaction in it, let it go unfinished. You do not have to argue it down, just set it aside the way you would put down something heavy.
- In a group chat, when someone sets up an easy target and the funny line is right there, leave it unsent. The joke costs that person something, and it costs you the quiet you were going to have afterward.
- If you are in a meeting and someone says something careless, resist the glance across the table that says what you both think. Keep your face your own and stay in the conversation instead.
What would change in me if I stopped keeping a record of other people's mistakes?
The same truth in other traditions
Dhammapada
The fault you hunt for in other people is easy to see, like chaff thrown in the wind, while your own stays hidden like a cheat's loaded dice. Looking for it elsewhere is how you keep from seeing it in yourself.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
When you catch yourself cataloguing someone's wrong, ask instead what is wrong in your own ruling mind. The accusation you make in private is a report on the accuser.
Zen
A finger pointed at the dirt on another's face leaves the pointer blind to their own. The quiet verdict is still a verdict, and it binds whoever passes it.
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