Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of the understanding (discerning). A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.
Proverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself.
Exodus 10:12
Jehovah said to Moses: Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts. Let them come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.
Psalm 32:9
Do not be stubborn like a horse or mule. They need a bit and bridle in their mouth to restrain them, or they will not come near you.
Proverbs 7:22
He immediately goes after her. He is like a bull that goes to the slaughter. Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 10:10-11
He who winks the eye [in a jesture of malice] causes trouble. A babbling fool will fall.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many. Fools die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom but the perverted tongue will be destroyed.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, the heart of the foolish does not.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken at the right time, how good it is!
Proverbs 17:10
Reproof influences a wise man more than a hundred stripes does to a fool.
Proverbs 19:29
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips that speak knowledge are more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.
Luke 4:22
All witnessed this and wondered at the kind words that he spoke. They said: Is this not Joseph's son?