Proverbs 17:7World English Bible British Edition
Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
Related Verses
Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:23
Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
Genesis 11:1
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 26:16
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”