Proverbs 18:7

How Fools Live

⁶ The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. ⁷ The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul. ⁸ The words of a whisper [are] like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down [to] inner parts of the body.

Foolish Man

Proverbs 10:14

Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but [to] the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near.

Proverbs 12:13

By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

Proverbs 13:3

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

Psalm 64:8

And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.

Psalm 140:9

[With respect to the] head of [those who] surround me, may the harm of their lips cover them.

Judges 11:35

And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. {I made an oath} to Yahweh, and I cannot take [it] back."

1 Samuel 14:24-46

Now the men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, because Saul had made the army take an oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats [any] food until evening, when I will have avenged myself on my enemies!" So none of the army tasted [any] food.

Proverbs 6:2

[if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,

Proverbs 10:8

A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Ecclesiastes 10:11-14

If the snake bites before the charming, {the snake charmer will not succeed}.

Mark 6:23-28

And he swore to her, "Anything whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom!"

Acts 23:14-22

who went to the chief priests and the elders [and] said, "We have bound ourselves under a curse to partake of nothing until we have killed Paul