Proverbs 10:8
A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 praised; but the name of the ungodly man is extinguished.
9He that walks simply, walks confidently; but he that perverts his ways shall be known.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:9Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction.
Proverbs 12:1He that loves instruction loves sense, but he that hates reproofs is a fool.
Proverbs 13:3He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself.
Proverbs 14:23With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in lack.
Proverbs 18:7A fool's mouth is ruin to him, 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 →