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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 instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked man getteth to himself a blot.
 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; 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, lest thou also be like unto him.
 5Answer a fool according to his folly, 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 that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you. (Matt. 7:6)
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Acts 13:45‑46• 45But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, contradicting and speaking injuriously.
 46And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations; (Acts 13:45‑46)
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Acts 28:25‑28• 25And being disagreed among themselves they left; Paul having spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Esaias the prophet to our fathers,
 26saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.
 27For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
 28Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God has been sent to the nations; *they* also will hear it. (Acts 28:25‑28)
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Luke 16:14• 14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked 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 has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death. (John 8:52)
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John 9:30‑34,40• 30The man answered and said to them, Now in this is a wonderful thing, that *ye* do not know whence he is, and he has opened mine eyes.
 31But we know that God does not hear sinners; but if any one be God-fearing and do his will, him he hears.
 32Since time was, it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.
 33If this man were not of God he would be able to do nothing.
 34They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.
 40And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they 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 has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him? (John 10:20)
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Acts 17:18,32• 18But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection to them.
 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this. (Acts 17:18,32)
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1 Cor. 1:21‑24• 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.
 22Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;
 23but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations 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• 10*We* are fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.
 11To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
 12and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
 13insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse 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.