Proverbs 10:8
A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.
Berean Standard Bible
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 a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
9He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
Proverbs 13:3He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
Proverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, 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 →