Proverbs 10:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 10:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 7:24-25
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: …
Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
James 3:13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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.
Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Topics

Bowels Fasting Fool Gentleness Graces Heart Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility

Commentary

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

(vv. 8)

Here is, 1. The honour and happiness of the obedient. They will receive commandments; they will take it as a privilege, and really an ease to them, to be under government, which saves them the labour of deliberating and choosing for themselves; and they will take it as a favour to be told their duty and admonished concerning it. And this is their wisdom; those are wise in heart who are tractable,…

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

(vv. 8)

8. wise, &c.--(compare Pr 9:8, 9, 16), opposed to prating fool--or, “fool of lips of wicked language.” fall--headlong, suddenly.