New Revised Standard Version
The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Contemporary English Version
If you have good sense, you will listen and obey; if all you do is talk foolishly, you will destroy yourself.

New American Bible
A wise heart accepts commands, but a babbling fool will be overthrown.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that walketh sincerely, walketh confidently: but he that perverteth his ways, shall be manifest.

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

wise

Proverbs 1:5 He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Proverbs 9:9 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.

Proverbs 12:1 He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.

Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.

Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.

James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

prating

Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong.

fall or be beaten

Proverbs 18:6,7 The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels. . . .