Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
The "fool" here is one willfully and persistently deaf to it, almost identical with the scorner.
23:9 Of a fool - Cast not away good counsels upon incorrigible sinners.