Proverbs 23:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 6 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Speak not in the ears of a [self-confident] fool, for he will despise the [godly] Wisdom of your words. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Do not speak into the ears of the unwise. They will despise the doctrine of your eloquence.

Proverbs 23:9 Cross References

Proverbs 1:7

4 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

Proverbs 14:7

4 A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Isaiah 36:21

Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.

Matthew 7:6

4 How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!

Luke 16:14

2 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.

John 10:20

8 And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

John 8:52

AND Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth:

John 9:40

Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

Acts 17:18

6 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation.

Acts 17:32

But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments, and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.