14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
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 ti…
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