Proverbs 18:7

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Psalm 140:9

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Psalm 64:8

So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

Proverbs 10:14

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

Proverbs 10:8

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

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 14:3

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a wellspring of life to him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

Proverbs 6:2

You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

Judges 11:35

And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.