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New American Standard Bible
Proverbs 18:6
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A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
A fooles lips come with strife, & his mouth calleth for stripes.
A fool’s lips lead to strife,and his mouth provokes a beating.
A fool's lips come into strife, And his mouth invites beatings.
Fools say things to start arguments. They are just asking for a beating.
A fool's lips bring contention and strife, And his mouth invites a beating.
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.
Foolish talk will get you into a lot of trouble.
A fool's words get him into fights; yes, his mouth calls out for a beating.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
A fooles lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for stripes.
A fool's lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.
The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging.
A fool's lips enter into strife, and his mouth calls for strokes.
The words of fools start quarrels. They make people want to beat them.
The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for blows.
Fools' words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating.
The lips of a fool bring fighting, and his mouth calls for a beating.
the lips of a dullard, enter into contention, and his mouth, for blows, crieth out.
The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels.
A fools lips enter into contention, and his mouth brings him to death,
When some fool starts an argument, he is asking for a beating.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.
A fool's lips bring strife, and a fool's mouth invites a flogging.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for stripes.
The lippis of a fool medlen hem silf with chidyngis; and his mouth excitith stryues.
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
A fool's lips come into strife, And his mouth invites beatings.
A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for stripes.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.
A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll.
The words of a fool start fights; do him a favor and gag him.
A fool's lips bring strife, And his mouth calls for blows.
A fool's lips come with strife,And his mouth calls for beatings.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fool's: Proverbs 12:16, Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 14:16, Proverbs 16:27, Proverbs 16:28, Proverbs 17:14, Proverbs 20:3, Proverbs 27:3
his: Proverbs 14:3, Proverbs 19:19, Proverbs 22:24, Proverbs 22:25, Proverbs 25:24, Proverbs 29:9
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:23 - spoken 1 Kings 12:10 - My little finger 2 Kings 14:8 - Come 2 Chronicles 10:10 - My little finger 2 Chronicles 25:19 - why shouldest Proverbs 3:30 - General Proverbs 10:8 - fall Proverbs 10:10 - but Proverbs 10:32 - but Proverbs 12:13 - wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips Proverbs 17:20 - and he Proverbs 25:8 - hastily Proverbs 26:17 - passeth Ecclesiastes 10:3 - and he Ecclesiastes 10:12 - but Matthew 5:22 - fool 1 Corinthians 1:11 - that there
Cross-References
But the noble person devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.
He spoke another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened."
Now when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A fool's lips enter into contention,.... That is, between others, when he has nothing to do with it; but he must be meddling, and make himself a party in the contention, which is an argument of his folly; he says things which occasion disputes, raise contentions among men, and provoke to wrath and anger. The Septuagint version is, "the lips of a fool lead him to evils": for, as they lead him to contention and strife, the issue of that is confusion and every evil work;
and his mouth calleth for strokes: as he stirs up and encourages contention, so he proceeds to blows, and excites others to them; from words he goes to blows, and, by the ill and provoking language of his mouth, gets many a blow to himself. Jarchi seems to understand it of chastisement, from the hand of God; see Proverbs 26:3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The first verse speaks of the immediate, the others of the remote, results of the âfoolâsâ temper. First, âcontention,â then âstrokesâ or blows, then âdestruction,â and last, âwounds.â
Proverbs 18:8
Wounds - The word so rendered occurs here and in Proverbs 26:22 only. Others render it âdainties,â and take the verse to describe the avidity with which people swallow in tales of scandal. They find their way to the innermost recesses of manâs nature.
