Proverbs 17:10
New International Version - UK
10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
more than a hundred lashes a fool.
Proverbs 17:12
New International Version - UK
12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool bent on folly.
Proverbs 17:16
New International Version - UK
16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
when they are not able to understand it?
Proverbs 17:21
New International Version - UK
21 To have a fool for a child brings grief;
there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
Proverbs 17:24-25
New International Version - UK
24 A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
25 A foolish son brings grief to his father
and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
Proverbs 17:7
New International Version - UK
7 Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool –
how much worse lying lips to a ruler!
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