Proverbs 10:14

A Conservative Version

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 10:8

The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 13:3

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 10:10

He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 9:9

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

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, Because of this every scholar who has been instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a house-ruler, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Matthew 13:44

Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man having found, he hid. And from the joy of it, he goes and sells all, as many things as he has, and buys that field.

Matthew 12:35

The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil things.

Proverbs 21:23

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Proverbs 19:8

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of a prudent man gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 18:1

He who desires to separate himself seeks excuses, and rages against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 1:5

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,

Proverbs 12:23

A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

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

Proverbs 17:20

He who has a wayward heart finds no good, and he who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.