 | 1817 - 590 pages
...hi his brain. It puts him beside himself.' — Here the reader wil} agree with this true patriot. ' The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.' One of the last Numbers of this patriotic Journal contains a tolerably explicit... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...wisdom'. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it h ? The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness1. The foolishness of a man perverteth his way ; and his heart fretteth against... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious ; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 13 819 it mischievous madness. 14 A fool also is full of words : a man cannot tell what shall be : and what... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pages
...to those who hear them : but the lips of a fool will swallow 13 up himself, and often injure others. The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness ; and the end of his talk [is] mischievous 14 madness. A fool also is full of words, yet are we no wiser; notwithstanding his... | |
 | 1823 - 602 pages
...well as to others, when we consider the description of them in the thirteenth verse (chap, x.): — " The beginning of the words of his mouth (is) foolishness ; and the end of his talk is mischievous- madness." — When he speaks at all he speaks foolishly ; and commencing in folly,... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...Fatigu'd with fruitless toil he hurries on, Like one, who trav'ling home with heedless steps, * [13] Tie beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness : and the end of his talk is mischievous madness, y [14] A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 506 pages
...vanities." " The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious ; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness ; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness : a fool also is full of words b." Whereas a woman that is cautelous and sparing... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...by following the malignity of their ungodly hearts : concerning whom Solomon saith, Eccles. x. 13, "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness : and the end of his talk is HOLELOTH RA : " which translators have rendered ' the worst of errors.' We still see, therefore,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...utterly to undo, and, as it were, eat up himself. (Pruv. xix. 28, and xii. 13. Rom. iii. 13) Ver. 13. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is desperate madness."] Hereby we understand the emphasis of the former verse, where a plural noun... | |
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 1 3 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. 
