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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 reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke 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 conceit. (Prov. 26:4‑5)
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Isa. 36:21• 21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. (Isa. 36:21)
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Matt. 7:6• 6Give 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. (Matt. 7:6)
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Acts 13:45‑46• 45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
 46Then 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. (Acts 13:45‑46)
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Acts 28:25‑28• 25And 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,
 26Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
 27For 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.
 28Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they 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 they derided him. (Luke 16:14)
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John 8:52• 52Then 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. (John 8:52)
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John 9:30‑34,40• 30The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
 31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
 32Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
 33If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
 34They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
 40And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? (John 9:30‑34,40)
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John 10:20• 20And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? (John 10:20)
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Acts 17:18,32• 18Then 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.
 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. (Acts 17:18,32)
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1 Cor. 1:21‑24• 21For 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.
 22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor. 1:21‑24)
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1 Cor. 4:10‑13• 10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
 11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
 12And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
 13Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. (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.