“Whoso keepeth his mouth and his
tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
PROVERBS 21:23
The sacred writer crowns the whole:
Who keeps his tongue, doth keep his soul.
UNKNOWN
God has made our lips the door of the mouth, but we
cannot keep that door of ourselves; therefore do we entreat
the Lord to take the rule of it.
C.H. SPURGEON
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
UNKNOWN
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that
openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
PROVERBS 13:3
He that looks carefully to his tongue, takes a safe course
for preserving his life, which is oft endangered by much
and wild talking.
SCOTT'S COMMENTARY
In company, guard your tongue; in solitude, your heart.
Our words need watching; but so also do our thoughts and
imaginations, which grow most active when we are alone.
C.H SPURGEON
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of
my lips.
PSALM 141:3
How needed is a sentinel and guard at the door! For lack
of it, what mischief has been wrought! Who can recount
all the ills of unguarded speech?
S. CONWAY
Let us keep constant watch over ourselves, that we may
speak words agreeable to the Christian character.
MATTHEW HENRY
The first virtue, son, if thou wilt learn,
Is to restrain and keep well thy tongue.
CHAUCER
When Jehovah sets the watch, the city is well guarded:
when the Lord becomes the guard of our mouth, the
whole man is well garrisoned.
C.H. SPURGEON
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
religion is vain.
JAMES 1:26
The picture is that of a man putting a bridle in his own
mouth, not in that of another.
A.T. ROBERTSON
Let us lay that word to heart. Whatever may be the outside
profession, if we do not govern our tongue for God,
if we use it for gossip, trifling, scandal or slander, our
very profession of Christ's name is a cheat and a lie.
PULPIT COMMENTARY
Yet men do not bridle horses merely to restrain them
from mischief, or from going in a wrong way; but likewise,
in order to rule and direct them in the right way,
that they may be useful and not merely inoffensive.
THOMAS SCOTT