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Scripture Context
Proverbs 10:8 - Proverbs 10:18
8 The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.
9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; but a prating fool shall fall.
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life; but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all sins.
13 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.
14 Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16 The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction; but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.