A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverbs 10:14 - King James 2000 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wise men lay up knowledge: But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wise men store up knowledge [in mind and heart], but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction. American Standard Version (1901) Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction. Common English Bible The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings on ruin. Catholic Public Domain Version The wise store away knowledge. But the mouth of the foolish is a neighbor to confusion. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion. |
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
He that winks with the eye causes trouble: but a prating fool shall fall.
The wise in heart will heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.
The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
He that gets wisdom loves his own soul: he that keeps understanding shall find good.
Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; which when a man has found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.