Holy Scripture
Proverbs 10:19
A church father on this verse
“How can teaching accomplish anything without a multitude of words, understood in the simpler sense, since even wisdom herself declares to the perishing, "I stretched out words, and you did not heed." Paul appears to have continued teaching from early morning till midnight, when indeed Eutychus, overcome with deep slee…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19By a multitude of words thou shalt not escape sin; But if thou refrain thy lips thou wilt be prudent.
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In context
17Instruction keeps the right ways of life; But instruction unchastened goes astray.
18Righteous lips cover enmity; But they that utter railings are most foolish.
— Proverbs 10:19 —
20The tongue of the just is tried silver; But the heart of the ungodly shall fail.
21The lips of the righteous know sublime truths: But the foolish die in want.