⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.

²⁴ Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:

²⁵ and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.

¹ Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.

⁷ A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

²³ In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips `tendeth' only to penury.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.

³ He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; `But' he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

¹³ In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

¹⁰ He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.

⁹ Give `instruction' to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

⁵ That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

¹² The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.