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

^10 (A)Rebuke is more effective for a wise man
Than a hundred blows on a fool.

¹² Let a man meet ^(A)a bear robbed of her cubs,
Rather than a fool in his folly.

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

^24 (A)Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding,
But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

²⁵ A ^(B)foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her who bore him.