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22 Insight is a fountain of life to one who has it,
But the discipline of ignorant fools is [a]folly.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:22 A lack of wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; the activity of an ignorant fool

22 A fountain of life is wisdom for its owner,[a]
    but the instruction[b] of fools is folly.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:22 Or “master”
  2. Proverbs 16:22 Or “punishment”