8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Eccl 10:12 — The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
• Isa 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
• Judg 8:16 — And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
• Prov 6:32 — But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
• Prov 7:7 — And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
• Prov 10:10 — He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
• Prov 10:21 — The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
• Prov 10:31 — The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Prov 10:31 — The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Prov 15:7 — The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
• Prov 15:23 — A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
• Prov 17:10 — A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
• Prov 19:29 — Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
• Prov 19:29 — Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
• Prov 20:15 — There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
• Prov 26:3 — A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
• Prov 26:3 — A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
• Prov 27:22 — Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
• Ps 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.