Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will accept commandments; but he that is a fool in his speaking will stumble.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
In Context
7The memory of the just is [destined] to be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.
9He that walketh uprightly ever walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways will be punished.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law, and I will observe it with all [my] heart.
Proverbs 9:9Give to the wise [instruction], and he will become yet wiser: impart knowledge to the righteous, and he will increase his information.
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 13:3He that watcheth his mouth guardeth his soul; but he that openeth wide his lips [prepareth] himself destruction.
Proverbs 14:23In all painful labor there is profit; but mere words of the lips [lead] only to want.
Proverbs 18:7The mouth of the fool is a destruction to himself, 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 →