New Revised Standard Version
The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.

Contemporary English Version
Saying foolish things is like setting a trap to destroy yourself.

New American Bible
The mouths of fools are their ruin; their lips are a deadly snare.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.

The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.

his destruction

Proverbs 10:8,14 He that walketh sincerely, walketh confidently: but he that perverteth his ways, shall be manifest. . . .

Proverbs 12:13 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.

Ecclesiastes 10:11-14 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly. . . .

his lips

Proverbs 6:2 Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Judges 11:35 And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.

1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

Mark 5:23-28 And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live. . . .

Acts 23:14 Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul.