Proverbs 10:8
Wise people heed good instruction/advice, but people who talk foolishly will ruin themselves.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
In Context
9Honest people will be safe, but others (OR, God) will find out those who are dishonest.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Help me to understand your laws in order that I may obey them with all my inner being.
Proverbs 9:9If you give instruction to wise people, they will become wiser. And if you teach righteous people, they will learn more.
Proverbs 12:1Those who want to know what is right to do want to be ◄disciplined/corrected► when they do what is wrong; it is foolish to not want to be ◄corrected/told that what you did is wrong►.
Proverbs 13:3Those who are very careful about what they say [MTY] will live a long life; those who talk ◄without thinking/too much► will ruin themselves.
Proverbs 14:23If you work hard, you will ◄accomplish something good/get a good income►, but if all you do is to talk and not work, you will remain poor.
Proverbs 18:7What foolish people [MTY] say causes them to be ruined; their own words are like a trap [MET] that catches/seizes them.
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 →