7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
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He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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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