The marginal renderings are more literal and give greater emphasis. What is pointed out is not the unfitness of lying lips for the noble-hearted, b…

Excellent speech does not become a fool.— Rather, perhaps, superfluous or pretentious words do not become a vile person (…

Excellent speech does not become a fool
A wicked man. Eloquence, or a sublime grand way of speaking, a copiousness a…

A fool, in Solomon's Proverbs, signifies a wicked man, whom excellent speech does not suit, because his conduct contradicts it.