Proverbs 18:7New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— The mouth of a dullard, is his ruin, and, his lips, are a snare to his soul.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, And his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— A fooles mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soule.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— A fool's mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul. |
A fool's
3684 {3684} Primeכְּסִילk@ciyl{kes-eel'}
From H3688; properly fat, that is, (figuratively) stupid or silly.
mouth
6310 {6310} Primeפֶּהpeh{peh}
From H6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literally or figuratively (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to.
[ is] his destruction,
4288 {4288} Primeמְחִתָּהm@chittah{mekh-it-taw'}
From H2846; properly a dissolution; concretely a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation.
and his lips
8193 {8193} Primeשָׂפָהsaphah{saw-faw'}
(The second form is in dual and plural); Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.).
[ are] the snare
4170 {4170} Primeמוֹקֵשׁmowqesh{mo-kashe'}
From H3369; a noose (for catching animals), (literally or figuratively); by implication a hook (for the nose).
of his soul.
5315 {5315} Primeנֶפֶשׁnephesh{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental). |
- his destruction:
Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:14 Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.
Proverbs 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Ecclesiastes 10:11-14 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. ... A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
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- his lips:
Proverbs 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Judges 11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
1 Samuel 14:24-46 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food. ... Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
Mark 6:23-28 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give [it] thee, unto the half of my kingdom. ... And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
Acts 23:14-22 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. ... So the chief captain [then] let the young man depart, and charged [him, See thou] tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
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