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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
not in the ears
'ozen (Hebrew #241)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
KJV usage: + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
Pronounce: o'-zen
Origin: from 238
of a fool
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
: for he will despise
buwz (Hebrew #936)
to disrespect
KJV usage: contemn, despise, X utterly.
Pronounce: booz
Origin: a primitive root
the wisdom
sekel (Hebrew #7922)
from 7919; intelligence; by implication, success
KJV usage: discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
Pronounce: seh'-kel
Origin: or sekel {say'-kel}
of thy words
millah (Hebrew #4405)
a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
KJV usage: + answer, by-word, matter, any thing (what) to say, to speak(-ing), speak, talking, word.
Pronounce: mil-law'
Origin: from 4448 (plural masculine as if from milleh {mil-leh'}
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 9:7‑8• 7He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame;{HR}And he that reproveth a wicked [man], a blot to himself.
 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee;{HR}Reprove a wise [man], and he will love thee. (Prov. 9:7‑8)
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Prov. 26:4‑5• 4Answer not a fool according to his folly,{HR}Lest thou also be like him.
 5Answer a fool according to his folly,{HR}Lest he be wise in his own eyes. (Prov. 26:4‑5)
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Isa. 36:21• 21And they were silent and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not. (Isa. 36:21)
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Matt. 7:6• 6Give not the holy thing to the dogs, nor cast your pearl before the swine lest they trample them with their feet, and turn and rend you. (Matt. 7:6)
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Acts 13:45‑46• 45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
 46And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, For you it was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken; but since ye thrust it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn unto the Gentiles. (Acts 13:45‑46)
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Acts 28:25‑28• 25And being disagreed one with another they left, Paul having said one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah unto our fathers,
 26saying, Go unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear and in no wise understand, with seeing ye shall see and in no wise perceive.
 27For the heart of this people became gross, and with [their] ears they became dull of hearing, and [their] eyes have they closed, lest they should see with [their] eyes and hear with [their] ears and understand with the heart, and return, and I should heal them.
 28Be it known therefore unto you that this salvation of God was sent to the Gentiles; they also will hear. (Acts 28:25‑28)
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Luke 16:14• 14{i}And the Pharisees also, who were covetous,{/i} heard all these things, {i}and{/i} sneered at him. (Luke 16:14)
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John 8:52• 52The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If anyone keep my word, he shall never taste of death. (John 8:52)
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John 9:30‑34,40• 30The man answered and said to them, Why in this is the wonderful thing, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes!
 31We know that God heareth not sinners, but if anyone be God-fearing, and do his will, him he heareth.
 32Since time [began] was it not heard that anyone opened a born blind man's eyes.
 33If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
 34They answered and said to him, In sins thou was born wholly, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
 40And some of the Pharisees that were with him heard these things , and said to him, Are we blind also? (John 9:30‑34,40)
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John 10:20• 20but many of them said, He hath a demon and is mad: why hear ye him? (John 10:20)
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Acts 17:18,32• 18And certain also of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this babbler say? and others, He seemeth to be an announcer of strange divinities, because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
 32Now when they heard of resurrection of dead [men] some mocked, but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again. (Acts 17:18,32)
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1 Cor. 1:21‑24• 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe;
 22since both Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom;
 23but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness,
 24but to those that [are] called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom; (1 Cor. 1:21‑24)
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1 Cor. 4:10‑13• 10we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
 11Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
 12and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
 13slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:10‑13)
• To seek to instruct him whose heart is set on folly and waywardness is but wasting one’s breath, or like casting pearls before swine. (“Proverbs Twenty-Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Speak not in the ears of a fool,{HR}For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.