Fine speech is not (A)becoming to a fool;
    still less is (B)false speech to a prince.

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

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10 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
    than a hundred blows into a fool.

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

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12 Let a man meet (A)a she-bear robbed of her cubs
    (B)rather than a fool in his folly.

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

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16 Why should a fool have money in his hand (A)to buy wisdom
    when he has no sense?

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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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24 (A)The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
25 (B)A foolish son is a grief to his father
    (C)and bitterness to (D)her who bore him.

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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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28 Even a fool (A)who keeps silent is considered wise;
    when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

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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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