Ecclesiastes 10:12
“The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.”
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Related Verses
“The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.”
“Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.”
“The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.”
“Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.”
“In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.”