Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
In Context
6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
8The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Cross References
Judges 11:35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.
Psalms 64:8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 10:8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:7-8
6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. Solomon has often shown what mischief bad men do to others with their ungoverned tongues; here he shows what mischief they do to themselves. 1. They embroil themselves in quarrels: A fool's lips, without any cause or call, enter into contention, by advancing foolish notions which others find themselves obliged to oppose, and so a quarrel is begun, or by giving… Read the whole commentary →