Bible verse
Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
KJV
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
ASV
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
ERV
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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