Proverbs 10:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 10:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 10:10
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

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Fool Graces Ignorance Knowledge Prudence Speaking Wisdom Wise Men

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14)

Observe, 1. It is the wisdom of the wise that they treasure up a stock of useful knowledge, which will be their preservation: Wisdom is therefore found in their lips (Prov. 10:13), because it is laid up in their hearts, out of which store, like the good householder, they bring things new and old. Whatever knowledge may be at any time useful to us we must lay it up, because we know not but some tim…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. lay up knowledge--that is, as treasures for good use. mouth ... destruction--or, “as to the mouth,” &c., destruction is near; they expose themselves to evil by prating.