SinaiEcclesiastes 10:12
American Standard Version
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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Ecclesiastes 10:12 in other translations
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
Ecclesiastes 10:12 in context
- 10If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
- 11If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
- 12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
- 13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
- 14A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?