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

² Fools find no pleasure in understanding,
    but only in expressing their opinion.

⁶ The lips of fools make accusations;
    their mouths elicit beatings.
⁷ The mouth of fools is their ruin;
    their lips are a trap for their lives.

19 Better to be poor and walk in innocence
    than to have dishonest lips and be a fool.

¹⁰ Luxury isn’t fitting for a fool;
    even less so for a servant to rule over princes.

²⁹ Punishments were made for mockers,
    and blows for the backs of fools.

³ It is honorable to back off from a fight,
    but fools jump right in.

⁹ Don’t speak in the ears of fools,
    for they will scorn your insightful words.

⁷ Wisdom is beyond foolish people.
    They don’t open their mouths in the gate.

26 Like snow in the summer or rain at harvest,
    so honor isn’t appropriate for a fool.