Proverbs 10:8 (BSB)

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:8: Here is, 1. The honour and happiness of the obedient. They will receive commandments; they will take it as a privilege, and really an ease to them, to be under government, which saves them the labour of deliberating and choosing for themselves; and they will take it as a favour to be told their duty and admonished concerning it.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:8: The wise in heart will receive commandments,.... Such who have true wisdom in the hidden part of the heart, of which the fear of the Lord is the beginning: these will not only, as good subjects, honour their king, and attend to his lawful commands; and, as dutiful children, regard those of their parents; and, as faithful servants, hearken to those of their masters; but...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:8: wise, &c.--(compare Pro 9:8-9, Pro 9:16), opposed to prating fool--or, "fool of lips of wicked language." fall--headlong, suddenly.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:8: Pro 10:8 There follows now a series of proverbs in which reference to sins of the mouth and their contrary prevails: He that is wise in heart receives precepts; But he that is of a foolish mouth comes to ruin. A חכם־לב, wise-hearted, as one whose heart is חכם, Pro 23:15; in a word, a נבון, a person of understanding or judgment, Pro 16:21.