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A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,
    but knowledge is easy for one who understands.

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A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

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10 A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person
    than a hundred blows into a fool.

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10 A rebuke cuts into a perceptive person
more than a hundred lashes into a fool.

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24 The discerning person looks to wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.(A)

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24 Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive,
but a fool’s eyes(A) roam to the ends of the earth.

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