⁷ Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool—
    how much worse lying lips to a ruler!^(A)

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

¹² Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    than a fool bent on folly.^(A)

¹⁶ Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
    when they are not able to understand it?^(A)

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)

²⁸ Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,
    and discerning if they hold their tongues.^(A)