Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,.... Scatter it about for the benefit of others; they are communicative and diffusive of it unto others, that fruit may abound to their account: so the first ministers of the Gospel diffused the savour of the knowledge of Christ and his Gospel in every place; their words went into all the earth, and their sound to the end of the world; and so every Gospel minister will speak according to the oracles of God, and according to the abilities and measure of the gift which he has received; and to the utmost of his power feeds souls with knowledge and understanding;
but the heart of the foolish doth not so; does not disperse knowledge, for he has no solid substantial knowledge in him: or, "the heart of the foolish is not right" {x}; it is full of folly and wickedness: or "the heart of the foolish does not disperse that which is right" {y}; true and right things, and the knowledge of them; but, on the contrary, as in Proverbs 15:2, "pours out foolishness".
{x} Nk al "non erit rectum", Pagninus, Baynus; "non est rectum", Piscator, Mercerus.
{y} "Spargit quod abest a recto", Junius & Tremellius, Amama; "eventilant non rectum", Schultens, Cocceius.