Proverbs 10:8-23 - Proverbs Concerning The Mouth
8 The wise in heart will heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
9 He that walks uprightly walks securely: but he that perverts his ways shall be known.
10 He that winks with the eye causes trouble: but a prating fool shall fall.
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
12 Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.
13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
16 The labor of the righteous leads to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17 He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof goes astray.
18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
19 In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.
22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
23 It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.