Proverbs 14:15 (BSB)

The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:15: Note, 1. It is folly to be credulous, to heed every flying report, to give ear to every man's story, though ever so improbable, to take things upon trust from common fame, to depend upon every man's profession of friendship and give credit to every one that will promise payment; those are simple who thus believe every word, forgetting that all men, in some sense...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:15: The simple believeth every word,.... Every thing that is said to him every story that is told him, and every promise that is made him; and so is easily imposed upon, and drawn in to his hurt: every word of God, or doctrine of his, ought to be believed; because whatever he says is true, he cannot lie; every word of his is pure, free...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:15: The simple . . . word--He is credulous, not from love, but heedlessness (Pro 13:16).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:15: Pro 14:15 15 The simple believeth every word; But the prudent takes heed to his step. We do not translate, “every thing,” for “word” and faith are correlates, Psa 106:24, and פּתי is the non-self-dependent who lets himself be easily persuaded by the talk of another: he believes every word without proving it, whether it is well-meant, whether it is true, whether it is salutary...