Proverbs 10:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments: But a prating fool shall fall.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments: But a prating fool shall fall.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The wise in heart will accept and obey commandments, but the foolish of lips will fall headlong.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.

Common English Bible

⁸ The skilled mind accepts commands, but a foolish talker is ruined.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The wise of heart accept precepts. The foolish are cut down by the lips.

Proverbs 10:8 Cross References

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge: But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

James 3:13

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 1:5

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Proverbs 14:23

In all labour there is profit: But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: But the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 13:3

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life: But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 12:13

In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man: But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 10:10

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

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Proverbs 9:8

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Proverbs 10:14

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