A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

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The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
    but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.(A)

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

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10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
    more than a hundred lashes a fool.

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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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24 A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
    but a fool’s eyes(A) wander to the ends of the earth.

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