Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 shall be for a blessing; but the name of the wicked shall rot.
9He that walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be found out.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, that I keep Thy law and observe it with my whole heart.
Proverbs 9:9Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.
Proverbs 13:3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; but for him that openeth wide his lips there shall be ruin.
Proverbs 14:23In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Proverbs 18:7A fool's mouth is his ruin, 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 →