Proverbs 10:8
A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Note a prating…: Heb. a fool of lips
Note fall: Heb. be beaten
The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- wise
- Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 9:9; Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs 14:8; Psalm 119:34; James 3:13
- but
- Proverbs 10:10; Proverbs 12:13; Proverbs 13:3; Proverbs 14:23
- prating fool
- Heb. a fool of lips.
- Ecclesiastes 10:12
- fall
- or, be beaten.
- Proverbs 18:6, 7