⁷ Fine speech is not ^(A)becoming to a fool;
    still less is ^(B)false speech to a prince.

¹⁰ A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
    than a hundred blows into a fool.

¹² Let a man meet ^(A)a she-bear robbed of her cubs
    ^(B)rather than a fool in his folly.

¹⁶ Why should a fool have money in his hand ^(A)to buy wisdom
    when he has no sense?

^24 (A)The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
^25 (B)A foolish son is a grief to his father
    ^(C)and bitterness to ^(D)her who bore him.

²⁸ Even a fool ^(A)who keeps silent is considered wise;
    when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.