Verse 2

The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:23 : 23 A wise man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of the fooles publisheth foolishnes.
  • Prov 13:16 : 16 Euery wise man will worke by knowledge: but a foole will spread abroade folly.
  • Prov 15:28 : 28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answere: but the wicked mans mouth babbleth euil thinges.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lorde God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.
  • Prov 16:23 : 23 The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.
  • Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A word spoken in his place, is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer. 12 He that reprooueth the wise, and the obedient eare, is as a golden earering and an ornament of fine golde.
  • Eccl 10:12-13 : 12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe. 13 The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due seaso?
  • Ps 45:1 : 1 To him that excelleth on Shoshannim a song of loue to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. Mine heart will vtter forth a good matter: I wil intreat in my workes of the King: my tongue is as the pen of a swift writer.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?