Proverbs 10:13
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.
Proverbs 10:13 in other translations
| BSB | Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment. |
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| WEB | Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding. |
| ASV | In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. |
| YLT | In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod is for the back of him who is lacking understanding. |
| DARBY | In the lips of an intelligent man wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. |
| BBE | In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Proverbs 10:13 mean?
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Proverbs 10:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 10:13
- 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.
- 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 15:23
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
- Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
- Proverbs 10:10-11
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
- Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
- Proverbs 20:15
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
- Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
- 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.
- 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.
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Context
- Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
- Proverbs 10:13
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.
- Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs 10:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En los labios del prudente se halla sabiduría: y vara á las espaldas del falto de cordura. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Sur les lèvres de l’homme intelligent se trouve la sagesse, mais la verge est pour le dos de celui qui est dépourvu de sens. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Auf den Lippen des Verständigen wird Weisheit gefunden; aber der Stock gebührt dem Rücken des Unverständigen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In labiis sapientis invenitur sapientia, et virga in dorso ejus qui indiget corde. |