Proverbs 10:8

Proverbs chapter 10 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.7The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.

v.8This passage

v.9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely; But he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Proverbs 9:9
Giveinstructionto a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 10:10
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.