Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish, there is a rod of arrogance. But the lips of the wise guard them.
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
Job 5:21You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.
Psalms 57:4Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
Proverbs 13:3Whoever guards his mouth guards his soul. But whoever gives no consideration to his speech shall experience misfortunes.
Proverbs 18:7The mouth of the foolish is his destruction, and his own lips are the ruin of his soul.
Proverbs 22:8Whoever sows iniquity will reap evils, and by the rod of his own wrath he will be consumed.
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 →