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…

The first verse speaks of the immediate, the others of the remote, results of the “fool’s” temper. First, “contention,” then “strokes” or blows, then “destruction,” and last, “wounds.” Pro 18:8 Wounds…

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,…

enter into The Heb. may mean either "come into," or "come with," "bring" (R.V. marg.).

strokes Or, stripes, R.V., as the same Heb. word is rendered in Pro 19:29, the only other place in which it…