Proverbs 23:9

Young's Literal Translation 1862

In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:7

Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

Proverbs 14:7

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

Isaiah 36:21

And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'

Matthew 7:6

`Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

Luke 16:14

And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

John 10:20

and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

John 8:52

The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

John 9:40

And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

Acts 17:18

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

Acts 17:32

And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'