| Geneva Study Bible Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. Wesley's Notes 17:7 Excellent speech - Discourse of high and excellent things. King James Translators' Notes Excellent...: Heb. A lip of excellency lying...: Heb. a lip of lying Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 7. Excellent speech-(Compare Margin). Such language as ill suits a fool, as lying (ought to suit) a prince (Pr 16:12, 13). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 17:4. Flatterers, especially false teachers, are welcome to those that live in sin. 5. Those that laugh at poverty, treat God's providence and precepts with contempt. 6. It is an honour to children to have wise and godly parents continued to them, even after they are grown up and settled in the world. 7. A fool, in Solomon's Proverbs, signifies a wicked man, whom excellent speech does not become, because his conversation contradicts it. | 
