Proverbs 23:9

Authorized (King James) Version

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

Proverbs 23:9

American Standard Version

⁹Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

¹²Apply thine heart unto instruction,
and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

¹²Apply thy heart unto ^[a]instruction,
And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

²³Buy the truth, and sell it not;
also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

²³Buy the truth, and sell it not;
Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.

American Standard Version (ASV)