9Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.


In Context

6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. |Eat and drink!| he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

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

10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Proverbs 23:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:9Do not speak to a fool, for he will scorn the wisdom of your words.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the hearing of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:9In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.