Proverbs 10:8
The chacham lev will receive mitzvot, 1 but one with foolish sfatayim (lips) shall be thrust down. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
In Context
7The memory of the tzaddik is as bracha, 1 but the shem resha'im shall rot. 1
9He that walketh uprightly walketh securely, 1 but he that perverteth his drakhim shall be known. 1
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep Thy torah; 1 yes, I shall be shomer over it with my kol lev. 1
Proverbs 9:9Give instruction to a chacham, and he will be yet wiser; 1 teach a tzaddik, and he will increase in learning. 1
Proverbs 12:1He who loveth musar loveth da'as, 1 but he that hateth tokhakhat (reproof, correction) is ba'ar (a boorish, ignorant person). 1
Proverbs 13:3He that is shomer over his peh (mouth) guards his nefesh, 1 but he that openeth wide his sfatayim (lips) shall have ruin. 1
Proverbs 14:23In all hard work there is profit, 1 but idle chatter of the sfatayim (lips) tendeth only to makhsor (poverty, want). 1
Proverbs 18:7The peh (mouth) of a kesil is his undoing, 1 and his sfatayim (lips) are the mokesh (snare) of his nefesh. 1
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 →