THEOSISProverbs 18:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
פִּֽי־כְ֭סִיל מְחִתָּה־ל֑וֹ וּ֝שְׂפָתָ֗יו מוֹקֵ֥שׁ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 13:3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.
- Prov 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.
- Prov 12:13For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.
- Ps 140 (139):9
- Ps 64 (63):8
- Acts 23:14Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul.
- Acts 23:22The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him.
- Prov 6:2Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.