⁷ Eloquent lips are^[a] not fitting for a fool.
How much less lying lips for a ruler!

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

¹² Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    than to meet a fool in his stupidity.

¹⁶ Why hand a fool money to buy wisdom,
since he has no aptitude for using it?

²⁴ Wisdom is right in front of a discerning person,
but a fool’s eyes wander to the end of the earth.

²⁵ A foolish son is an aggravation to his father
and bitterness to the woman who bore him.

²⁸ Even a stubborn fool who keeps silent will be considered wise.
He is considered to be perceptive if he keeps his lips shut.