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Only a fool despises a parent’s[a] discipline;
    whoever learns from correction is wise.

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  1. 15:5 Hebrew father’s.

A fool will despise the instruction of his father,
    but he who guards reproof is prudent.

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14 A wise person is hungry for knowledge,
    while the fool feeds on trash.

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14 The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge,
    but the faces of fools, they[a] will feed on folly.

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  1. Proverbs 15:14 Hebrew “he/it”