Proverbs 18:6 (BSB)

A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

From Proverbs 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 18:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 18:6-7: Solomon has often shown what mischief bad men do to others with their ungoverned tongues; here he shows what mischief they do to themselves. 1. They embroil themselves in quarrels: A fool's lips, without any cause or call, enter into contention, by advancing foolish notions which others find themselves obliged to oppose, and so a quarrel is begun, or by giving provoking language, which will...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 18:6: A fool's lips enter into contention,.... That is, between others, when he has nothing to do with it; but he must be meddling, and make himself a party in the contention, which is an argument of his folly; he says things which occasion disputes, raise contentions among men, and provoke to wrath and anger.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 18:6: The quarrelsome bring trouble on themselves. Their rash language ensnares them (Pro 6:2).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 18:6: Pro 18:6 6 The lips of the fool engage in strife, And his mouth calleth for stripes. We may translate: the lips of the fool cause strife, for בּוא ב, to come with anything, e.g., Psa 66:13, is equivalent to bring it (to bring forward), as also: they engage in strife; as one says בּוא בדמים: to be engaged in bloodshed, 1Sa 25:26.