Proverbs 18:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 18:7 —

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Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Psalms 64:8
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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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. 7)

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