Proverbs 18:7

How Fools Live

⁶ A fool's lips are ever brawling, and his mouth provoketh unto battle. ⁷ A fool's mouth is his own destruction, and his lips are the snare for his own soul. ⁸ The words of a slanderer are very wounds, and go through unto the inmost parts of the body.

Foolish Man

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is nigh destruction.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked falleth into the snare through the malice of his own mouth; but the just shall escape out of peril.

Proverbs 13:3

He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life; but whoso speaketh unadvised, findeth harm.

Psalm 64:8

Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn.

Psalm 140:9

Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about.

Judges 11:35

And when he saw her, he rent his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter, thou hast made me stoop, and art one of them that trouble me. For I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and cannot go back."

1 Samuel 14:24-46

And the men of Israel joined themselves together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying, "Cursed be he that eateth any food until night, that I may be avenged of mine enemies." And so there was none of the people that tasted any sustenance.

Proverbs 6:2

yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech.

Proverbs 10:8

A wise man will receive warning; but a fool will sooner be smitten in the face.

Ecclesiastes 10:11-14

A babbler of his tongue is no better than a serpent that stingeth without hissing.

Mark 6:23-28

And he sware unto her, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, even unto the one half of my kingdom."

Acts 23:14-22

And they came to the chief priest and elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves with a vow, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.