Proverbs 18:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

Proverbs 18:6 —

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Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 22:24-25
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: …
Proverbs 16:27-28
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. …
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

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Anger Contention Fool Speaking Strife

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 res…

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

(vv. 6)

6-7. The quarrelsome bring trouble on themselves. Their rash language ensnares them (Pr 6:2).