Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: gbut the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
NKJV: In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty.
ESV: In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
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Proverbs 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Proverbs 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 10:3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.