Proverbs 18:7
A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
BSB
ASV
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
KJV
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
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.
Through
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.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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.
But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
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.”
Through
Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
leads to
An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 140:9May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
leads to
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
Through
Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
leads to
The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
