⁷ Excellent speech is not becoming to a fool,
    much less lying lips to a prince.

¹⁰ A reproof enters deeper into a wise man
    than a hundred stripes into a fool.

¹² Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    rather than a fool in his folly.

¹⁶ Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,
    seeing he has no heart for it?

²⁴ Wisdom is before him who has 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 who bore him.

²⁸ Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise;
    and he who shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.