Proverbs 10:11

¹¹The mouth of a good person is a deep, life--giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.g

Proverbs 10 marks a decisive shift in the book of Proverbs. The extended discourses of chapters 1–9 give way to a collection of individual, pithy sayings—the first of several Solomonic collections. Each verse is a self-contained unit, typically a two-line parallelism contrasting the