The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: But a prating fool shall fall.
The wise in heart will accept and obey commandments, but the foolish of lips will fall headlong.
The skilled mind accepts commands, but a foolish talker is ruined.
The wise of heart accept precepts. The foolish are cut down by the lips.
The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.
Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.
He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.
Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous 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 up himself.
Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.