Ecclesiastes 15:7

Nova Vulgata

Labia sapientium disseminabunt scientiam; cor stultorum non rectum erit.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Labia sapientium disseminabunt scientiam ; cor stultorum dissimile erit.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Labia sapientium disseminabunt scientiam;
cor stultorum dissimile erit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lips: Psalms 37:30, Psalms 45:2, Psalms 51:13-15, Psalms 71:15-18, Psalms 78:2-6, Psalms 119:13, Ecclesiastes 12:9, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Song of Solomon 4:11, Matthew 10:27, Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15, Acts 18:9, Acts 18:10, Romans 10:14-17, Romans 15:18-21, Ephesians 4:29, 2 Timothy 2:2

the heart: Proverbs 10:20, Proverbs 10:21, Matthew 12:34, James 3:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:7 - shalt talk Job 4:3 - Behold Job 33:3 - my lips Proverbs 5:2 - thy lips Proverbs 10:11 - mouth of a Proverbs 10:13 - the lips Proverbs 12:18 - but Proverbs 16:21 - the sweetness Proverbs 20:15 - but Proverbs 22:18 - fitted Matthew 13:52 - which Colossians 4:6 - your

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,.... Scatter it about for the benefit of others; they are communicative and diffusive of it unto others, that fruit may abound to their account: so the first ministers of the Gospel diffused the savour of the knowledge of Christ and his Gospel in every place; their words went into all the earth, and their sound to the end of the world; and so every Gospel minister will speak according to the oracles of God, and according to the abilities and measure of the gift which he has received; and to the utmost of his power feeds souls with knowledge and understanding;

but the heart of the foolish [doth] not so; does not disperse knowledge, for he has no solid substantial knowledge in him: or, "the heart of the foolish [is] not right" x; it is full of folly and wickedness: or "the heart of the foolish [does] not [disperse that which is] right" y; true and right things, and the knowledge of them; but, on the contrary, as in Proverbs 15:2, "pours out foolishness".

x לא כן "non erit rectum", Pagninus, Baynus; "non est rectum", Piscator, Mercerus. y "Spargit quod abest a recto", Junius Tremellius, Amama "eventilant non rectum", Schultens, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not so - The word translated “so” is taken by some in its etymological force as “strong,” “firm,” and the passage is rendered “the heart of the fool disperseth (supplied from the first clause) what is weak and unsteady,” i. e., “falsehood and unwisdom.” The Septuagint takes it as an adjective, “the heart of the fool is unstedfast.” The phrase as it stands in the King James Version is, however, of frequent occurrence Genesis 48:18; Exodus 10:11; Numbers 12:7.