Proverbs 29:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs than to confront a fool immersed in folly.

Proverbs 26:4

Do not answer fools according to their folly, lest you be a fool yourself.

Proverbs 29:10

The bloodthirsty hate the blameless, and they seek the life of the upright.

Proverbs 29:8

Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The words of their mouths begin in foolishness, and their talk ends in wicked madness,

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.