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Text -- Proverbs 10:8 (NET)

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10:8 The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Wisdom | Wicked | Tongue | Poetry | PROVERBS, THE BOOK OF | PROVERBS, BOOK OF | Humility | Heart | GOD, 2 | Fool | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 10:8 - -- Is ready to hear and obey the precepts of God and men.

Is ready to hear and obey the precepts of God and men.

Wesley: Pro 10:8 - -- Into mischief.

Into mischief.

JFB: Pro 10:8 - -- (compare Pro 9:8-9, Pro 9:16), opposed to

(compare Pro 9:8-9, Pro 9:16), opposed to

JFB: Pro 10:8 - -- Or, "fool of lips of wicked language."

Or, "fool of lips of wicked language."

JFB: Pro 10:8 - -- Headlong, suddenly.

Headlong, suddenly.

Clarke: Pro 10:8 - -- A prating fool shall fall - This clause is repeated in the tenth verse. The wise man will receive the commandment: but the shallow blabbing fool sha...

A prating fool shall fall - This clause is repeated in the tenth verse. The wise man will receive the commandment: but the shallow blabbing fool shall be cast down. See Pro 10:10.

TSK: Pro 10:8 - -- wise : Pro 1:5, Pro 9:9, Pro 12:1, Pro 14:8; Psa 119:34; Jam 3:13 but : Pro 10:10, Pro 12:13, Pro 13:3, Pro 14:23 prating fool : Heb. a fool of lips, ...

wise : Pro 1:5, Pro 9:9, Pro 12:1, Pro 14:8; Psa 119:34; Jam 3:13

but : Pro 10:10, Pro 12:13, Pro 13:3, Pro 14:23

prating fool : Heb. a fool of lips, Ecc 10:12

fall : or, be beaten, Pro 18:6, Pro 18:7

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 10:8 - -- A prating ... fall - Better, as in the margin. Inward self-contained wisdom is contrasted with self-exposed folly.

A prating ... fall - Better, as in the margin. Inward self-contained wisdom is contrasted with self-exposed folly.

Poole: Pro 10:8 - -- Will receive commandments is ready to hear and obey the counsels and precepts of God, and of men, by which means he shall stand fast and live. A pra...

Will receive commandments is ready to hear and obey the counsels and precepts of God, and of men, by which means he shall stand fast and live.

A prating fool one who is slow to hear and swift to speak, who, instead of receiving good admonitions, cavils and disputes against them. In the Hebrew he is called a fool of lips, either because he discovers the folly of his heart by his lips, and thereby exposeth himself to the mischief here following; or because he is without heart, as is said of Ephraim, Hos 7:11 , or his heart is little worth, as is said here, Pro 10:20 ; or because he speaks rashly, without any consideration. Or it may be rendered, a fool by his lips , i.e. by his foolish and wicked speeches, contrary to the commands of God, by talking much and ill, when it is more comely and necessary for him to hear and receive instruction from others.

Shall fall to wit, into mischief; or, be punished, as the word is used, Hos 4:14 ; or, be beaten , as below, Pro 10:10 .

Haydock: Pro 10:8 - -- Lips. He will not bear correction. (Menochius) --- But suffers the punishment of his own unguarded speeches; or rather the man who hath foolish li...

Lips. He will not bear correction. (Menochius) ---

But suffers the punishment of his own unguarded speeches; or rather the man who hath foolish lips, shall be beaten, ver. 13. (Calmet)

Gill: Pro 10:8 - -- The wise in heart will receive commandments,.... Such who have true wisdom in the hidden part of the heart, of which the fear of the Lord is the begin...

The wise in heart will receive commandments,.... Such who have true wisdom in the hidden part of the heart, of which the fear of the Lord is the beginning: these will not only, as good subjects, honour their king, and attend to his lawful commands; and, as dutiful children, regard those of their parents; and, as faithful servants, hearken to those of their masters; but, as such that fear the Lord, will receive and cheerfully obey the commandments of God and Christ;

but a prating fool shall fall; like Diotrephes, that prated against the Apostle John and other saints. Or, "a fool of lips" b; whose folly is proclaimed and made known by his lips; who, out of the abundance of it in his heart, speaks and pours it out by his lips: such an one falls into sin and into mischief; he falls into disgrace in this world, and into hell in the next. The Targum is,

"the fool by his lips shall be taken;''

as in a snare.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 10:8 The Niphal verb לָבַט (lavat) means “to be thrust down [or, away]”; that is, “to be ruined; to fall...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Pro 10:1-32 - --1 From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.

MHCC: Pro 10:8 - --The wise in heart puts his knowledge in practice.

Matthew Henry: Pro 10:8 - -- Here is, 1. The honour and happiness of the obedient. They will receive commandments; they will take it as a privilege, and really an ease to them...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 10:8 - -- There follows now a series of proverbs in which reference to sins of the mouth and their contrary prevails: He that is wise in heart receives prece...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 10:1-14 - --1. Things that produce profit 10:1-14 10:2 At face value both statements in this verse may seem untrue. The solution to this puzzling proverb, as well...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 10:1, From this chapter to the Pro 5:1 and Pro 20:1 are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.

Poole: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 10 From this chapter to the five and twentieth, are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices, with excellent rules fo...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

MHCC: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) Through the whole of the Proverbs, we are to look for somewhat beyond the first sense the passage may imply, and this we shall find to be Christ. He i...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are distichs, tw...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

Gill: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 10 From this chapter to the "twenty fifth" are various proverbial sentences, without any very apparent connection or coher...

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