the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 23:9
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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,For he will despise the insight of your speech.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Tell nothing into the eares of a foole: for he wyll despise the wysdome of thy wordes.
Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Don't try to teach fools. They will make fun of your wise words.
Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisedome of thy words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Tel nothinge in to ye eares of a foole, for he wyl despyse the wy?dome of thy wordes.
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Don't bother talking sense to fools; they'll only poke fun at your words.Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
Don't speak in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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Don't talk to fools— they will just make fun.Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will only despise the common sense in your words.
Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
Do not speak in the presence of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Don't waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will hate the wisdom of your words.
Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, who will only despise the wisdom of your words.
In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.
Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Do not speak to be heard by a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Don't speak to fools; they will only ignore your wise words.
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Don't try to talk sense to a fool; he can't appreciate it.Don't speak to a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.
Speke thou not in the eeris of vnwise men; for thei schulen dispise the teching of thi speche.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Speak: Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 9:8, Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:5, Isaiah 36:21, Matthew 7:6, Acts 13:45, Acts 13:46, Acts 28:25-28
he: Luke 16:14, John 8:52, John 9:30-34, John 9:40, John 10:20, Acts 17:18, Acts 17:32, 1 Corinthians 1:21-24, 1 Corinthians 4:10-13
Reciprocal: 1 Thessalonians 4:8 - despiseth not
Cross-References
Never repay anyone evil for evil. Take thought for what is right and gracious and proper in the sight of everyone.
Owe nothing to anyone except to love and seek the best for one another; for he who [unselfishly] loves his neighbor has fulfilled the [essence of the] law [relating to one's fellowman].
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Speak not in the ears of a fool,.... For it is only beating the air, and speaking to the wind; it is casting pearls before swine, and that which is holy to dogs. By the "fool" is meant a wicked man, one abandoned to sin, and hardened in it; that scoffs at all admonitions and reproofs, that derides the word, and the preachers of it, and makes a mock at all good men, and everything they say; and therefore what is serious and sacred should not be said to them, since it only becomes the object of their banter and ridicule;
for he will despise the wisdom of thy words; not only the words of doctrine, reproof, and correction, but the "wisdom" of them; or let them be ever so wisely spoken; for if the wisdom of God and his words, the truths of the Gospel, are foolishness with such, and despised by them, then much more the wisdom even of the best of men, and the wisest things they say; yea, when they deliver the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, the Gospel of Christ, which therefore should be spoken among them that are perfect, 1 Corinthians 1:24.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The “fool” here is one willfully and persistently deaf to it, almost identical with the scorner.
