Proverbs 10:14
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
BSB
ASV
Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
KJV
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
The wise hide knowledge. Knowing indeed, that there is a time to be silent and a time to speak (Eccl. III). Hence the prophet says, "While the sinner stood against me, I was mute and humbled and silent from good things" (Psal. XXXVIII). And the …
Lay up - In their minds, to be brought forth upon fit occasions. Knowledge - Whereby they may be enabled to speak both what, and when it is seasonable. But - Fools are more forward to lay out than to lay up, and for want of knowledge speak much and foolishly, whereby they frequently bring destruction upon themselves.
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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Proverbs 13:3He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
leads to
He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
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Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
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let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
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Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
