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Proverbios 18:6
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Los labios del necio provocan contienda, y su boca llama a los golpes.
Los labios del necio entran en contienda; y su boca los azotes llama.
Los labios del loco vienen con pleito; y su boca a plaga llama.
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
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.
