Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely; But he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Proverbs 9:9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 13:3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 14:23In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of 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 →