Proverbs 23:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.

Proverbs 23:9 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 14:7

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

Isaiah 36:21

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's mitzvah was, *Don't answer him.*

Matthew 7:6

*Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Luke 16:14

The Perushim, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

John 10:20

Many of them said, *He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?*

John 8:52

Then the Judeans said to him, *Now we know that you have a demon. Avraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'

John 9:40

Those of the Perushim who were with him heard these things, and said to him, *Are we also blind?*

Acts 17:18

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, *What does this babbler want to say?* Others said, *He seems to be advocating foreign deities,* because he preached Yeshua and the resurrection.

Acts 17:32

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, *We want to hear you again concerning this.*