Today we have more wisdom from Proverbs concerning the way we use our words:
Arrogant lips are unsuited to a fool-
Proverbs 17:7a
Another translation says it this way:
Excellent speech becomes not a fool.
From Gill’s Exposition on the Bible:
“Excellent speech becometh not a fool,…. A wicked man. Eloquence, or a sublime grand way of speaking, a copiousness and fluency of expression, become not such; because hereby he may be capable of doing more mischief; or such a style is unsuitable to the subject of his discourse, which is nothing but folly and wickedness.”
This Proverb is a little harder to wrap my head around but I think it speaks to the way we use our speech.
What’s your take on it?