Proverbs 18:7

How Fools Live

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth. ⁷ The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul. ⁸ The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

Foolish Man

Proverbs 10:14

The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

Proverbs 12:13

In transgression of the lips is the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

Proverbs 13:3

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

Psalm 64:8

And they cause him to stumble, Against them is their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

Psalm 140:9

The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

Judges 11:35

And it cometh to pass, when he seeth her, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, 'Alas, my daughter, thou hast caused me greatly to bend, and thou hast been among those troubling me; and I -- I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah, and I am not able to turn back.'

1 Samuel 14:24-46

And the men of Israel have been distressed on that day, and Saul adjureth the people, saying, 'Cursed is the man who eateth food till the evening, and I have been avenged of mine enemies;' and none of the people hath tasted food.

Proverbs 6:2

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

Proverbs 10:8

The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

Ecclesiastes 10:11-14

If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

Mark 6:23-28

and he sware to her -- 'Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.'

Acts 23:14-22

who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, 'With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;