⁷ Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;
how much worse are lies for a ruler.

¹⁰ A rebuke cuts into a perceptive person
more than a hundred lashes into a fool.

¹² Better for a person to meet a bear robbed of her cubs^(A)
than a fool in his foolishness.

¹⁶ Why does a fool have money in his hand
with no intention of buying wisdom?^(A)

²⁴ Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive,
but a fool’s eyes^(A) roam to the ends of the earth.

²⁵ A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.^(B)

²⁸ Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent—
discerning, when he seals his lips.^(A)