Proverbs 10:8

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Psalm 119:34

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

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:

Proverbs 10:10

He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 13:3

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to penury.

Proverbs 14:8

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

Proverbs 9:8

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

Proverbs 9:9

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

Ecclesiastes 10:12

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

James 3:13

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.