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


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Ecclesiastes 10 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Proverbs 18 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Proverbs 13 3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 29 11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Proverbs 17 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs 24 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 9 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Proverbs 15 2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Psalms 50 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Proverbs 26 6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Ecclesiastes 10 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Job 15 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Psalms 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Ecclesiastes 10 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Psalms 107 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Proverbs 23 9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 6 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Proverbs 14 3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Ecclesiastes 4 5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Proverbs 26 9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
Proverbs 10 14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Matthew 15 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Proverbs 26 24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
Ecclesiastes 10 3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Proverbs 10 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 24 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs 8 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 16 23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
Proverbs 15 7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
Proverbs 10 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs 18 4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Job 27 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Proverbs 26 28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Proverbs 26 23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Proverbs 29 20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 10 18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 17 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Proverbs 27 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Ecclesiastes 2 16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Proverbs 15 5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Ecclesiastes 7 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Romans 3 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ecclesiastes 10 2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Matthew 15 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Proverbs 12 16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Psalms 109 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Proverbs 17 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Proverbs 14 24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Psalms 64 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Proverbs 17 21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.