⁷ Fine speech^[a] is not becoming a fool,
    still less^[b] is false speech^[c] for a ruler.

¹⁰ A rebuke strikes him who understands
    deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.

¹² May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring
    and not a fool in his folly.

¹⁶ Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool,
    in order to buy wisdom where^[a] there is no sense.^[b]

²⁴ He who understands sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.^[a]
25 A grief to his father is the child of a fool,
    and bitterness to her who bore him.