Proverbs 23:9

Living With Your Neighbor

⁸ You vomit the morsel you eat and waste your complements. ⁹ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
¹⁰ Do not remove the old landmark (boundry). And do not enter the field of the fatherless.

Foolish Man

No

Matthew 7:6

Do not give holy things to the dogs (impure persons) (false prophets) (Matthew 7:15). Do not throw your pearls before swine (the most unclean). They will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

Proverbs 1:7

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 9:7-8

Correct a scoffer and get dishonor for yourself. Rebuke a wicked man and receive insults.

Proverbs 26:4-5

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him.

Isaiah 36:21

They were silent and did not say anything to him because the king commanded them not to answer him.

Luke 16:14

Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

John 8:52

The Jews said to him: Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets died. And you say if a man obeys my word he will never taste of death.

John 9:30-34

The man answered: This certainly is a marvel that you do not know where he is from and yet he opened my eyes.

John 9:40

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him: Are we also blind?

John 10:20

Many of them said: He has a demon and is mad. Why listen to him?

Acts 13:45-46

When the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with envy. They spoke against those things Paul spoke. They contradicted and blasphemed him.

Acts 17:18

The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said: What is this babbler saying? Others: He seems to be advocating strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 17:32

Some mocked when they heard about the resurrection of the dead. Yet others said: We will hear you again concerning this.

Acts 28:25-28

So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors!

1 Corinthians 1:21-24

This is the wisdom of God that the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 4:10-13

We are fools for Christ. But you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.