Proverbs 10:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: But a prating fool shall fall.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: But a prating fool shall fall.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who winks with the eye [craftily and with malice] causes sorrow; the foolish of lips will fall headlong but he who boldly reproves makes peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.

Common English Bible

Those who wink an eye bring trouble; those who speak foolishly are ruined.

Catholic Public Domain Version

He who winks with the eye gives sorrow. And the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that winketh with the eye shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

Proverbs 10:10 Cross References

Job 15:12

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?

Psalm 35:19

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men lay up knowledge: But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

Proverbs 10:8

The wise in heart will receive commandments: But a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 16:30

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 6:13

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, He maketh signs with his fingers;

3 John 1:10

Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth, and casteth them out of the church.