Proverbs 10:14 (BSB)

The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:14: Observe, 1. It is the wisdom of the wise that they treasure up a stock of useful knowledge, which will be their preservation: Wisdom is therefore found in their lips (Pro 10:13), because it is laid up in their hearts, out of which store, like the good householder, they bring things new and old.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:14: Wise men lay up knowledge,.... Which they get by reading, prayer, meditation, hearing the word of God, and conversation with good men: this they lay up in their hearts, minds, and memories, that they may not forget it, and as a rich treasure they highly value it; that they may bring it forth at proper times, and on proper occasions, for the benefit of others...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:14: lay up knowledge--that is, as treasures for good use. mouth . . . destruction--or, "as to the mouth," &c., destruction is near; they expose themselves to evil by prating.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:14: Pro 10:14 14 Wise men store up knowledge; But the mouth of the fool is threatening destruction. Ewald, Bertheau, Hitzig, Oetinger: “The mouth of the fool blunders out, and is as the sudden falling in of a house which one cannot escape from.” But since מחתּה is a favourite Mishle-word to denote the effect and issue of that which is dangerous and destructive, so the...