Proverbs 10:14
New International Version
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.

New Living Translation
Wise people treasure knowledge, but the babbling of a fool invites disaster.

English Standard Version
The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Berean Standard Bible
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.

King James Bible
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

New King James Version
Wise people store up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

New American Standard Bible
Wise people store up knowledge, But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

NASB 1995
Wise men store up knowledge, But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

NASB 1977
Wise men store up knowledge, But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

Legacy Standard Bible
Wise men store up knowledge, But the mouth of the ignorant fool draws ruin near.

Amplified Bible
Wise men store up and treasure knowledge [in mind and heart], But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

Christian Standard Bible
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool hastens destruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool hastens destruction.

American Standard Version
Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The wise will conceal knowledge and the mouth of the hasty is near ruin.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The wise will hide discretion; but the mouth of the hasty draws near to ruin.

Contemporary English Version
If you have good sense, you will learn all you can, but foolish talk will soon destroy you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.

English Revised Version
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who are wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a stubborn fool invites ruin.

Good News Translation
The wise get all the knowledge they can, but when fools speak, trouble is not far off.

International Standard Version
Those who are wise store up knowledge, but when the fool speaks, destruction is near.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is an imminent ruin.

Literal Standard Version
The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool [is] near ruin.

Majority Standard Bible
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.

New American Bible
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool is imminent ruin.

NET Bible
Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

New Revised Standard Version
The wise lay up knowledge, but the babbling of a fool brings ruin near.

New Heart English Bible
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

World English Bible
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Young's Literal Translation
The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

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Context
Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son
13Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment. 14The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction. 15The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.…

Cross References
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.

Proverbs 10:8
A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

Proverbs 10:10
He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

Proverbs 12:23
A shrewd man keeps his knowledge to himself, but a foolish heart proclaims its folly.

Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.


Treasury of Scripture

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

lay

Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Proverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 18:1,15
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom…

the mouth

Proverbs 10:8,10
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall…

Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

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(14) The mouth of the foolish is near destruction--i.e., is a near, ever-threatening calamity; one never knows what awkward or dangerous thing he will not say next: whereas wise men store up knowledge, and bring it forth as it is wanted (Matthew 13:52).

Verse 14. - Lay up knowledge; like a treasure, for use on proper occasions (Proverbs 12:23; Proverbs 14:33; comp. Matthew 7:6; Matthew 13:52). Is near destruction. "Near" may be an adjective, equivalent to "imminent," "ever-threatening." The versions are proximum est and ἐγγίζει. The foolish are always uttering carelessly what may bring trouble on themselves and others.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The wise
חֲכָמִ֥ים (ḥă·ḵā·mîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2450: Wise

store up
יִצְפְּנוּ־ (yiṣ·pə·nū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6845: To hide, to hoard, reserve, to deny, to protect, to lurk

knowledge,
דָ֑עַת (ḏā·‘aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1847: Knowledge

but the mouth
וּפִֽי־ (ū·p̄î-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

of the fool
אֱ֝וִיל (’ĕ·wîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 191: Foolish

invites
קְרֹבָֽה׃ (qə·rō·ḇāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7138: Near

destruction.
מְחִתָּ֥ה (mə·ḥit·tāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4288: A dissolution, a ruin, consternation


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