Proverbs 14:3
What stupid people say punishes their pride, but what wise people say will protect them.
Free Bible 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
2Those who live right respect the Lord, but those who live dishonestly despise him.
4Without oxen, the manger is empty, but a good harvest comes through the ox's strength.
Cross References
Job 5:21You will be protected from sharp-tongued slander; and when violence comes you will not be afraid.
Psalms 31:18Shut the mouths of those who tell lies against good people—those who speak contemptuously in their pride and arrogance!
Psalms 57:4I am surrounded by man-eating lions—I am forced to live with them! Their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongues are swords.
Proverbs 13:3Watch what you say and save your life—saying too much leads to disaster.
Proverbs 18:7Stupid people are caught out by what they say; their own words trap them.
Proverbs 22:8Those who sow injustice will reap disaster, and the angry beatings they inflict on others will be stopped.
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 →