Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
BSB
ASV
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
KJV
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
"The words of a wise man win favour, but a fool's lips devour him. "Foolishness, if it is happy in its rusticity, will know less evil. But now he wages war against wisdom, and whatever prudence he sees in a learned man, he does not take to be incited by enthusiasm.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious,.... Or "grace" (u).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ephesians 4:29Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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Colossians 4:6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and…
Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”