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Don`t speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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Identify the 'Fool'
Commentators clarify that the 'fool' in this verse is not simply someone unintelligent. Rather, as Albert Barnes notes, it's someone 'willfully and persistently deaf' to wisdom. John Gill adds that this refers to a person hardened in sin who actively scoffs at and ridicules spiritual truth. The issue is a rebellious heart, not a slow mind.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The “fool” here is one willfully and persistently deaf to it, almost identical with the scorner.
19th Century
Anglican
Speak not in the ears of a fool. —Do not waste your time in explaining matters to him.
A fool.—A d…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Speak not in the ears of a fool For it is only beating the air, and speaking to the wind; it is casting pearls before swi…
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It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of Divine things; but if what a wise man says will not be heard, let him hold his peace.
