Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
In Context
2He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but by the strength of the ox is much increase.
Cross References
Job 5:21Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 13:3He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 18:7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:3
2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord : but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. Here are, 1. Grace and sin in their true colours. Grace reigning is a reverence of God, and gives honour to him who is infinitely great and high, and to whom all honour is due, than which what is more becoming or should be more pleasing to the rational creature? Sin reigning is no less than a contempt of God. In this, more than in any thing, sin appears exceedingly sinful, that it despises God, whom angels… Read the whole commentary →