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Proverbs 10:14

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.

Proverbs 10:14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Proverbs 10:14

Theological / Devotional

Lay up knowledge. A wise man learns from everyone he meets and from every experience of life. It is his pleasure as well as habit to seize upon each new piece of knowledge and to seek to fit it into his total fund of information. As a result he is equipped with knowledge and wisdom to meet unexpected emergencies (see Matt. 13:52). The foolish man has the opposite experience. He despises knowledge and understanding. What he is forced to learn he makes no effort to remember. As a natural consequence he is ill-equipped to meet life's problems.

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