33 Wisdom resides in the heart of the discerning;(A)
she is known[a] even among fools.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:33 LXX reads unknown

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive,
but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.(A)

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A fool despises his father’s discipline,
but a person who accepts correction is sensible.(A)

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The lips of the wise broadcast knowledge,
but not so the heart of fools.

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14 A discerning mind seeks knowledge,(A)
but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.(B)

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22 Insight is a fountain of life(A) for its possessor,
but the discipline of fools is folly.

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

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

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

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

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21 A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;
the father of a fool has no joy.(A)

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

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