Proverbs 23:9

Speke thou not in the eeris of vnwise men; for thei schulen dispise the teching of thi speche.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Thou schalt brake out the metis, whiche thou hast ete; and thou schalt leese thi faire wordis.

10Touche thou not the termes of litle children; and entre thou not in to the feeld of fadirles and modirles children.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:7The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching.

Proverbs 9:8Nile thou vndirnyme a scornere; lest he hate thee. Vndirnyme thou a wise man; and he schal loue thee.

Isaiah 36:21And thei weren stille, and answeriden not to hym a word. For whi the kyng comaundide to hem, and seide, Answere ye not to him.

Luke 16:14But the Farisees, that weren coueytous, herden alle these thingis, and thei scorneden hym.

John 9:30Thilke man answeride, and seide to hem, For in this is a wondurful thing, that ye witen not, of whennus he is, and he hath openyd myn iyen.

John 10:20And many of hem seiden, He hath a deuel, and maddith; what heren ye hym?

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