Don’t speak to a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.

你不要说话给愚昧人听，因他必藐视你智慧的言语。

不要说话给愚昧人听，因他必藐视你智慧的言语。

不要说话给愚昧人听，因他必藐视你智慧的言语。

不要和愚人说话，他必藐视你的智言。

不要说话给愚昧人听，因为他必藐视你明慧的言语。

你不要说话给愚昧人听，因为他会藐视你明达的言语。

你不要說話給愚昧人聽，因他必藐視你智慧的言語。

不要說話給愚昧人聽，因他必藐視你智慧的言語。

不要說話給愚昧人聽，因他必藐視你智慧的言語。

不要和愚人說話，他必藐視你的智言。

不要說話給愚昧人聽，因為他必藐視你明慧的言語。

不可說話給愚頑人聽；因為你明智的話語、他會藐視。

你不要說話給愚昧人聽，因為他會藐視你明達的言語。

勿與蠢人語、彼必蔑爾智言、

維彼愚人、毋語以微妙、恐其藐視爾道。

愚人前勿論道、恐藐視爾之達言、

Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent words.

Don’t speak to foolish people. They will laugh at your wise words.

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice.

Don’t speak to a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.

Do not speak to be heard by a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Do not speak in the hearing 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.

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

Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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

The one who corrects a mocker will bring dishonor on himself; the one who rebukes a wicked man will get hurt.Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom,

Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness or you’ll be like him yourself.Answer a fool according to his foolishness or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him.

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said,“ We’d like to hear from you again about this.”

But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was,“ Don’t answer him.”

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said,“ What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?” Others replied,“ He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”— because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

Then the Jews said,“ Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say,‘ If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death— ever!’

Many of them were saying,“ He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to oppose what Paul was saying by insulting him.Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said:“ It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

“ This is an amazing thing,” the man told them.“ You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.Throughout history no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”“ You were born entirely in sin,” they replied,“ and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Disagreeing among themselves, they began to leave after Paul made one statement:“ The Holy Spirit correctly spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestorswhen He said, Go to these people and say: You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive.For the hearts of these people have grown callous, their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and be converted, and I would heal them.Therefore, let it be known to you that this saving work of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him,“ We aren’t blind too, are we?”

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.