Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a stick [for his] pride; but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
Leeser Tanakh
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
Cross References
Job 5:21Against the scourge of the tongue shall thou he hidden; and thou needest not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Psalms 31:18(31:19) Let the lying lips be made dumb, which speak hard things against the righteous, with pride and contempt.
Psalms 57:4(57:5) My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [in the midst of] those that send out flames, [those] sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharpened sword.
Proverbs 13:3He that watcheth his mouth guardeth his soul; but he that openeth wide his lips [prepareth] himself destruction.
Proverbs 18:7The mouth of the fool is a destruction to himself, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 22:8He that soweth injustice will reap wrong-doing; and the rod of God's wrath will not fail.
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 →