Proverbs 23:9

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What does Proverbs 23:9 mean?

Proverbs 23:9 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 23:9

• Proverbs 9:7-8

  He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

• Matthew 7:6

  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

• Proverbs 26:4-5

  Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

• Acts 13:45-46

  But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

• John 10:20

  And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

• Isaiah 36:21

  But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

• Acts 28:25-28

  And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

• 1 Corinthians 1:21-24

  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

• John 8:52

  Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

• Luke 16:14

  And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

• Acts 17:18

  Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

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Context

• Proverbs 23:8

  The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

• Proverbs 23:9

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

• Proverbs 23:10

  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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