Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
The lips
Bible References
The lips
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.
Exodus 10:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.
Luke 4:22
And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
A rod
Proverbs 10:10
He that winks with the eye causes trouble: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 7:22
He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Proverbs 17:10
A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.
Proverbs 27:22
Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Psalm 32:9
Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.