Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
World Messianic 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 righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
9He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
Cross References
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your Torah. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 13:3He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 14:23In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, 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 →