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Proverbs 18:7
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A fool’s mouth is his devastation,and his lips are a trap for his life.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are a snare to his soul.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
The words of fools will ruin them; their own words will trap them.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are a snare to his soul.
A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.
A fool's mouth is his ruin,And his lips are the snare of his soul.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Saying foolish things is like setting a trap to destroy yourself.
A fool's mouth is his ruin; his words are a trap for him.
A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Fools hurt themselves when they speak. Their own words trap them.
A fools mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
When a fool speaks, he is ruining himself; he gets caught in the trap of his own words.
The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare of his soul.
A fooles mouth is his owne destruccion, and his lippes are ye snare for his owne soule.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
A fooles mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soule.
A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.
A fool’s mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
The mouth of a fool is defoulyng of hym; and hise lippis ben the fallynge of his soule.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their lips.
The mouth of a fool is what destroys him, and his lips are a trap to his soul.
The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.
The mouth of a dullard, is his ruin, and, his lips, are a snare to his soul.
The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.
The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, And his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
Fools are undone by their big mouths; their souls are crushed by their words.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
his destruction: Proverbs 10:8, Proverbs 10:14, Proverbs 12:13, Proverbs 13:3, Ecclesiastes 10:11-14
his lips: Proverbs 6:2, Judges 11:35, 1 Samuel 14:24-46, Mark 6:23-28, Acts 23:14-22
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:33 - as a fool dieth 1 Kings 2:23 - spoken 1 Kings 12:10 - My little finger 2 Chronicles 10:10 - My little finger Psalms 59:12 - For the Psalms 64:8 - tongue Psalms 140:9 - let the mischief Proverbs 10:10 - but Proverbs 17:20 - and he Proverbs 20:25 - a snare
Cross-References
And Sarah denies, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she has been afraid; and He says, "No, but you did laugh."
And the men rise from there, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;
And he presses on them greatly, and they turn aside to him, and come into his house; and he makes a banquet for them, and has baked unleavened things; and they eat.
Who are lying down on beds of ivory, || And are spread out on their couches, || And are eating lambs from the flock, || And calves from the midst of the stall,
"And a deceiver [is] cursed, who has in his drove a male, || And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, || For I [am] a great King," said YHWH of Hosts, || "And My Name [is] revered among nations!"
Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Behold, I prepared my early meal, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things [are] ready, come to the wedding feasts;
and having brought the fatted calf, kill [it], and having eaten, we may be merry,
and he said to him, Your brother has arrived, and your father killed the fatted calf, because he received him back in health.
but when your son—this one who devoured your living with prostitutes—came, you killed to him the fatted calf.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A fool's mouth [is] his destruction,.... The cause of it; for his contentions, and quarrels, and evil speaking, lawsuits are commenced against him, which bring ruin upon himself and his family now; as well as for his idle and wicked words he will be condemned hereafter, Matthew 12:35; there is a world of iniquity in the mouth and tongue of a wicked man, which bring destruction upon himself and others, James 3:6;
and his lips [are] the snare of his soul; from speaking in his own defence, he says things which should not be said, and by which he is entangled yet more and more; he is caught by his own words and condemned by them; or his loquacity, in which he delights, is a snare unto him to say things which neither become him, nor are for his advantage, but the contrary; see Proverbs 12:13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The first verse speaks of the immediate, the others of the remote, results of the âfoolâsâ temper. First, âcontention,â then âstrokesâ or blows, then âdestruction,â and last, âwounds.â
Proverbs 18:8
Wounds - The word so rendered occurs here and in Proverbs 26:22 only. Others render it âdainties,â and take the verse to describe the avidity with which people swallow in tales of scandal. They find their way to the innermost recesses of manâs nature.
