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Proverbs 17:7
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Proverbs 17:7
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:7 Literally “A lip of fineness”
- Proverbs 17:7 Literally “only for”
- Proverbs 17:7 Literally “lip of deceit”
Proverbs 17:7
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Proverbs 17:7
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7 Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool—
how much worse lying lips to a ruler!(A)
Proverbs 17:7
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Proverbs 17:7
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7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
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Proverbs 17:10
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Proverbs 17:10
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10 A rebuke strikes him who understands
deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.
Proverbs 17:10
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Proverbs 17:10
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10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
more than a hundred lashes a fool.
Proverbs 17:10
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Proverbs 17:10
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10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
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Proverbs 17:12
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Proverbs 17:12
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12 May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring
and not a fool in his folly.
Proverbs 17:12
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Proverbs 17:12
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12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool bent on folly.(A)
Proverbs 17:12
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Proverbs 17:12
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12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
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Proverbs 17:16
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Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool,
in order to buy wisdom where[a] there is no sense.[b]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:16 Hebrew “and”
- Proverbs 17:16 Literally “heart”
Proverbs 17:16
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Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
when they are not able to understand it?(A)
Proverbs 17:16
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Proverbs 17:16
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16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
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Proverbs 17:24-25
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Proverbs 17:24-25
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24 He who understands sets his face toward wisdom,
but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.[a]
25 A grief to his father is the child of a fool,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:24 Or “land”
Proverbs 17:24-25
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Proverbs 17:24-25
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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.
25 A foolish son brings grief to his father
and bitterness to the mother who bore him.(B)
Proverbs 17:24-25
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Proverbs 17:24-25
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24 Wisdom is before 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.
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Proverbs 17:28
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Proverbs 17:28
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28 Even a fool who keeps silent shall be considered wise;[a]
he who closes his lips is intelligent.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:28 Literally “wise, he shall be considered”
Proverbs 17:28
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Proverbs 17:28
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28 Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,
and discerning if they hold their tongues.(A)
Proverbs 17:28
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Proverbs 17:28
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28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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