Proverbs 10:6 · World English Bible
Proverbs 10:6 Meaning Blessings Are on the Head
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
What does Proverbs 10:6 mean?
A mind that has chosen to see innocence wears peace as its natural condition, and blessing rests upon it because it has stopped attacking and so has nothing to fear in return. What crowns such a mind is not reward but the simple absence of guilt, the quiet that comes when accusation is finally laid down.
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A mind that has chosen to see innocence wears peace as its natural condition, and blessing rests upon it because it has stopped attacking and so has nothing to fear in return. What crowns such a mind is not reward but the simple absence of guilt, the quiet that comes when accusation is finally laid down.
The fearful mind, by contrast, is stopped up by its own attack, its speech choked with the violence it aimed outward and now cannot escape. Every judgment thrown at another lands back on the one who threw it, so the mind that condemns is silenced by the very guilt it tried to be rid of.
Head: the crowning condition of a mind at peace, where blessing rests once it has stopped attacking and laid down all accusation Mouth: the mind's expression stopped up by its own attack, the speech choked with the violence it aimed outward and cannot escape
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Live Proverbs 10:6 today
- Write the angry reply if you need to, then delete it instead of sending it. Sit with how much lighter the next hour is.
- The next time you are about to tell a story that makes someone else look small, change the subject. You will feel the quiet where the jab was going to go.
- Under pressure, when the quickest way out is to blame someone, take the sentence back before it leaves your mouth and say what you need instead. Accusation always costs the accuser more.
What would today feel like if I threw nothing at anyone?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 22
The one who does not contend has nothing to defend, and so nothing stands against them. Peace is not a reward for winning, it is what is left when you stop fighting.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
He abused me, he struck me, he robbed me. Those who carry such thoughts never put down their anger, and those who set the thoughts down are free of it.
Judaism · Talmud
Shaming speech harms three people at once, the one spoken of, the one who listens, and the one who speaks. The speaker usually keeps the deepest cut.
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