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

¹¹ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

¹⁴ Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

¹³ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

³ He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

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