The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
The lips of a righteous [man] feed many; but fools die for want of understanding.
Proverbs — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
P R O V E R B S CHAP. X. Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are distichs, two sentences in one verse, illustrating each other; but it is seldom that there…