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New Century Version

Proverbs 18:6

The words of fools start quarrels. They make people want to beat them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fool;   Speaking;   Strife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Contentiousness;   Dissention;   Fools;   Unity-Strife;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - Contention;   Foolishness;   Snares;   Speech/communication;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fools;   Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tongue;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Evil-Speaking;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fool;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Folly and Fool;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A fooles lips come with strife, & his mouth calleth for stripes.
Christian Standard Bible®
A fool’s lips lead to strife,and his mouth provokes a beating.
Hebrew Names Version
A fool's lips come into strife, And his mouth invites beatings.
Easy-to-Read Version
Fools say things to start arguments. They are just asking for a beating.
Amplified Bible
A fool's lips bring contention and strife, And his mouth invites a beating.
American Standard Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.
Contemporary English Version
Foolish talk will get you into a lot of trouble.
Complete Jewish Bible
A fool's words get him into fights; yes, his mouth calls out for a beating.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
King James Version (1611)
A fooles lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.
English Revised Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for stripes.
Berean Standard Bible
A fool's lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.
Lexham English Bible
The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging.
Literal Translation
A fool's lips enter into strife, and his mouth calls for strokes.
New English Translation
The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
New King James Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for blows.
New Living Translation
Fools' words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating.
New Life Bible
The lips of a fool bring fighting, and his mouth calls for a beating.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the lips of a dullard, enter into contention, and his mouth, for blows, crieth out.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels.
George Lamsa Translation
A fools lips enter into contention, and his mouth brings him to death,
Good News Translation
When some fool starts an argument, he is asking for a beating.
New American Standard Bible
A fool's lips bring strife, And his mouth invites beatings.
King James Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.
New Revised Standard
A fool's lips bring strife, and a fool's mouth invites a flogging.
Darby Translation
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for stripes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The lippis of a fool medlen hem silf with chidyngis; and his mouth excitith stryues.
Young's Literal Translation
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
World English Bible
A fool's lips come into strife, And his mouth invites beatings.
Revised Standard Version
A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
Update Bible Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for stripes.
Webster's Bible Translation
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Bible in Basic English
A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll.
THE MESSAGE
The words of a fool start fights; do him a favor and gag him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A fool's lips bring strife, And his mouth calls for blows.
Legacy Standard Bible
A fool's lips come with strife,And his mouth calls for beatings.

Contextual Overview

6 The words of fools start quarrels. They make people want to beat them. 7 The words of fools will ruin them; their own words will trap them.

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

Isaiah 32:8
But a good leader plans to do good, and those good things make him a good leader.
Matthew 13:33
Then Jesus told another story: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a large tub of flour until it made all the dough rise."
Acts 16:15
She and all the people in her house were baptized. Then she invited us to her home, saying, "If you think I am truly a believer in the Lord, then come stay in my house." And she persuaded us to stay with her.
Romans 12:13
Share with God's people who need help. Bring strangers in need into your homes.
Galatians 5:13
My brothers and sisters, God called you to be free, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do what pleases your sinful self. Serve each other with love.
Hebrews 13:2
Remember to welcome strangers, because some who have done this have welcomed angels without knowing it.
1 Peter 4:9
Open your homes to each other, without complaining.

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 “fool’s” temper. First, “contention,” then “strokes” or blows, then “destruction,” and last, “wounds.”

Proverbs 18:8

Wounds - The word so rendered occurs here and in Proverbs 26:22 only. Others render it “dainties,” 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 man’s nature.


 
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