Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart receiveth commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
In Context
7The memory of the righteous [man] shall be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.
9He that walketh in integrity walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I will observe thy law; and I will keep it with [my] whole heart.
Proverbs 9:9Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 13:3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.
Proverbs 14:23In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to want.
Proverbs 18:7A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:8
7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. Both the just and the wicked, when their days are fulfilled, must die. Between their bodies in the grave thee is no visible difference; between the souls of the one and the other, in the world of spirits, thee is a vast difference, and so there is, or ought to be, between their memories, which survive them. I. Good men are and ought to be well spoken of when they are gone; it is one of the blessings that comes upon the head of the just,… Read the whole commentary →