7  Fine speech is ^wnot becoming to a fool;

still less is false speech to a prince.

10  ^aA rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding

than a hundred blows into a fool.

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

rather than a fool in his folly.

16  Why should a fool have money in his hand to ^ebuy wisdom

when he has no sense?

24  The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,

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

25  A foolish son is a grief to his father

and bitterness to her who bore him.

28  Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;

when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.