◄ Proverbs 17:28 ►
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Good News Translation
After all, even fools may be thought wise and intelligent if they stay quiet and keep their mouths shut.

New Revised Standard Version
Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.

Contemporary English Version
Even fools seem smart when they are quiet.

New American Bible
Even fools, keeping silent, are considered wise; if they keep their lips closed, intelligent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding.

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.

Job 13:5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:3,14 Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. . . .

Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
…27He that setteth bounds to his words, is knowing and wise: and the man of understanding is of a precious spirit. 28Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding.
Cross References
Job 13:5
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Proverbs 18:1
He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.

Proverbs 17:27
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