THEOSISProverbs 10:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.
בְּשִׂפְתֵ֣י נָ֭בוֹן תִּמָּצֵ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝שֵׁ֗בֶט לְגֵ֣ו חֲסַר־לֵֽב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 26:3A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
- Prov 6:32But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
- Isa 50:4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
- Prov 20:15There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
- Prov 15:7The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.
- Prov 17:10A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.
- Prov 27:22Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
- Prov 10:31The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.