My mom used to tell me, “If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.” This is a sound piece of advice, and to some extent is a modern day proverb. There is a proverb similar to that in this chapter.
Verse 28 says, “Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.”
Sometimes we do not have anything to say, but we like to hear our own voice and want to impress people, but we do not know what we are talking about so we fail miserably. But if we just keep our mouth shut we wouldn’t look so foolish, and may have learned from what others were saying.
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