Proverbs 10:8

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 12:1

He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

James 3:13

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.

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.

Proverbs 1:5

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

Ecclesiastes 10:12

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

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 13:3

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

Proverbs 12:13

A wicked man is snared by the transgression of [his] lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 10:10

He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And 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 scoffer, 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 a foolish man is a present destruction.