Proverbs 15:2 - American Standard Version 2015 The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright;\par\tab But the mouth of fools poureth out folly. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: But the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of the [self-confident] fool pours out folly. American Standard Version (1901) The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools poureth out folly. Common English Bible The tongue of the wise enhances knowledge, but the mouth of a fool gushes with stupidity. Catholic Public Domain Version The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly. |
{\b For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. {\i A Psalm} of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.}\par\par\tab My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter;\par\tab I speak the things which I have made touching the king:\par\tab My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth;\par\tab Swords are in their lips:\par\tab For who, {\i say they}, doth hear?
A prudent man concealeth knowledge;\par\tab But the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Every prudent man worketh with knowledge;\par\tab But a fool flaunteth {\i his} folly.
A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth;\par\tab And a word in due season, how good is it!
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer;\par\tab But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge;\par\tab But the heart of the foolish {\i doeth} not so.
The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth,\par\tab And addeth learning to his lips.
That thou mayest preserve discretion,\par\tab And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
A fool also multiplieth words: {\i yet} man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.