^7 [a]Excellent speech becometh not a fool;
Much less do lying lips a prince.

¹⁰ A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding
Than a hundred stripes into a fool.

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man,
Rather than a fool in his folly.

¹⁶ Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom,
Seeing he hath no ^[a]understanding?

²⁴ Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding;
But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her that bare him.

²⁸ Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise;
^[a]When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent.