7  Fine speech is not ^wbecoming to a fool;

still less is ^xfalse speech to a prince.

10  A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding

than a hundred blows into a fool.

12  Let a man meet ^ca she-bear robbed of her cubs

^drather than a fool in his folly.

16  Why should a fool have money in his hand ^jto buy wisdom

when he has no sense?

24  ^sThe discerning sets his face toward wisdom,

but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

25  ⁿA foolish son is a grief to his father

^tand bitterness to ^uher who bore him.

28  Even a fool ^xwho keeps silent is considered wise;

when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.