Proverbs 14:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Proverbs 14:3 —

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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
James 3:5-6
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! …
Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Job 5:21
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Proverbs 21:24
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 3)

See here, 1. A proud fool exposing himself. Where there is pride in the heart, and no wisdom in the head to suppress it, it commonly shows itself in the words: In the mouth there is pride, proud boasting, proud censuring, proud scorning, proud commanding and giving law; this is the rod, or branch, of pride; the word is used only here and Isa. 11:1. It grows from that root of bitterness which is in…

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

(vv. 3)

3. rod of pride--that is, the punishment of pride, which they evince by their words. The words of the wise procure good to them.