Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;
how much worse are lies for a ruler.

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Too much talking isn’t right for a fool;
    even less so false speech for an honorable person.

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

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10 A rebuke goes deeper to an understanding person
    than a hundred lashes to a fool.

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12 Better for a person to meet a bear robbed of her cubs(A)
than a fool in his foolishness.

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12 Safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    than fools in their folly.

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16 Why does a fool have money in his hand
with no intention of buying wisdom?(A)

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16 Why should a fool have money
    to pay for wisdom? He has no mind.

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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.

25 A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.(B)

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24 Wisdom is right in front of those with understanding,
    but the eyes of fools are off to the edges of the earth.
25 A foolish son is irritating to his father
    and bitter to her who gave birth to him.

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28 Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent—
discerning, when he seals his lips.(A)

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28 Fools who keep quiet are deemed wise;
    those who shut their lips are smart.

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