⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

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

¹ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

¹³ Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

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

²³ In all labour 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 keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

¹³ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just 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 just man, and he will increase in learning.

⁵ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise 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.