Verse List for PROV 10:8

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OET (OET-RV) The wise person accepts instructions, ⇔ ^ but fools will be ruined by their own words.

OET-LV A_person_wise _of heart he _accepts commands and_a _fool lips he _will _be _ruined.

ULT The one wise of heart receives commands, ⇔ but the one stupid of lips will be thrown down.

UST People who think wisely are willing to obey the good things that people tell them to do, ⇔  but people who speak foolishly destroy themselves.

BSB & MSB A wise heart will receive commandments, ⇔  but foolish lips will come to ruin.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The wise in heart accept commandments, ⇔  but a chattering fool will fall.

NET The wise person accepts instructions, ⇔ but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

LSV The wise in heart accepts commands,
And a talkative fool kicks.

FBV Those who think wisely pay attention to instruction, but a stupid chatterbox ends up in disaster.

T4T ⇔  Wise people heed good instruction/advice, ⇔  but people who talk foolishly will ruin themselves.

LEB • A heart of wisdom will heed commandments,
• but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

BBE The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Moff A man of sense defers to authority: ⇔  a silly chatterer comes to grief.

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

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

DRA The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

YLT The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

Drby The wise in heart receiveth commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.

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

SLT The wise of heart will receive commands: and the foolish of lips shall fall.

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

KJB-1769 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.[fn][fn]

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]The wise in heart will receiue commaundements: but a prating foole shall fall.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps A wyse man wyll receaue warning: but a prating foole shalbe punished.
(A wise man will receive warning: but a prating fool shall be punished.)

Gnva The wise in heart will receiue commandements: but the foolish in talke shalbe beaten.
(The wise in heart will receive commandments: but the foolish in talk shall be beaten.)

Cvdl A wyse man wil receaue warnynge, but a foole wil sooner be smytten in the face.
(A wise man will receive warning, but a fool will sooner be smitten/struck in the face.)

Wycl A wijs man schal resseyue comaundementis with herte; a fool is betun with lippis.
(A wise man shall receive commandments with heart; a fool is beaten with lips.)

Luth Wer weise von Herzen ist, nimmt die Gebote an; der aber ein Narrenmaul hat, wird geschlagen.
(Who wise from heart(s) is, takes the commandments/commands an; the/of_the but a fool’s_mouth has, becomes beaten.)

ClVg Sapiens corde præcepta suscipit; stultus cæditur labiis.[fn]
(Wise heart commands(n) undertake; stupid/foolish is_beaten lips.)

UHB חֲכַם־לֵ֭ב יִקַּ֣ח מִצְוֺ֑ת וֶ⁠אֱוִ֥יל שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃ ‡

BrLXX Σοφὸς καρδίᾳ δέξεται ἐντολὰς, ὁ δὲ ἄστεγος χείλες σκολιάζων ὑποσκελισθήσεται.

BrTr A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.