²⁸ Even a fool, (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise, and he that stoppeth his lips, prudent.

² A fool hath no delight in understanding: but that his heart may be ^[a]discovered.

⁶ A fool’s lips come with strife, and his mouth calleth for stripes.

⁷ A fool’s mouth is his own destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soul.

19 ¹ Better ^(A)is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that abuseth his lips, and is a fool.

^10 [a]Pleasure is not comely for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

²⁹ But judgments are prepared for the scorners, and stripes for the back of the fools.

³ It is a man’s honor to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

⁹ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

⁷ Wisdom is high to a fool: therefore he cannot open his mouth in the ^[a]gate.

26 ¹ As the snow in the Summer, and as the rain in the Harvest are not meet, so is honor unseemly for a fool.