Proverbs 10:13 · KJV
“In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod {is} for the back of him that is void of understanding. {of understanding: Heb. of heart}”
— Proverbs 10:13
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Wise {men} lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish {is} near destruction.
Proverbs 10 — Context
The mouth of a righteous {man is} a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod {is} for the back of him that is void of understanding. {of understanding: Heb. of heart}
14Wise {men} lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish {is} near destruction.
15The rich man's wealth {is} his strong city: the destruction of the poor {is} their poverty.
Cross References
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Proverbs 6:32
{But} whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he {that} doeth it destroyeth his own soul. {understanding: Heb. heart}
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to {him that is} weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish {doeth} not so.
Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. {entereth...: or, aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times}
Psalms 32:9
Be ye not as the horse, {or} as the mule, {which} have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.