“The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 14 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.