6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: …
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. …
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-7)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 provoking language, which will be r…
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