Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!
New American Standard Bible
The one who
King James Version
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Holman Bible
the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
International Standard Version
Anyone who guards his words protects his life; anyone who talks too much is ruined.
A Conservative Version
He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
American Standard Version
He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Amplified
The one who guards his mouth [thinking before he speaks] protects his life;
The one who opens his lips wide [and chatters without thinking] comes to ruin.
Bible in Basic English
He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.
Darby Translation
He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.
Julia Smith Translation
He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.
King James 2000
He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.
Modern King James verseion
He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life; but whoso speaketh unadvised, findeth harm.
NET Bible
The one who guards his words guards his life, but whoever is talkative will come to ruin.
New Heart English Bible
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
The Emphasized Bible
He that watcheth his mouth, guardeth his soul, He that openeth wide his lips, it shall be his ruin.
Webster
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
World English Bible
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Themes
Evil » Speech evil speaking » The tongue to be restrained
Heedfulness » Necessary » In speech
natural Life » Preserved by discretion
Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of restraining the tongue
Speaking, evil » The tongue to be restrained
Interlinear
Natsar
Peh
Shamar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 13:3
Images Proverbs 13:3
Prayers for Proverbs 13:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wise Son Lives Righteously
2 From the fruit of the mouth a man eateth good, And the soul of the treacherous -- violence. 3 Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him! 4 The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:23
Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.
Proverbs 12:13
In transgression of the lips is the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.
Proverbs 18:7
The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
Psalm 39:1
To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'
Proverbs 10:19
In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.
Proverbs 20:19
A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.
Matthew 12:36-37
'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;
James 1:26
If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;
James 3:2-12
for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;