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Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs 10:14 · King James Version
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Proverbs 10:14 in other translations
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
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In context
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
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