¹³ In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

³² But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

²² And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

⁴ The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

²² Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

¹⁰ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

²³ A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

³¹ The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

¹⁰ He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

¹¹ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

²² He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

⁹ Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

¹² And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.