Wisdom for Different Audiences

Proverbs 23:9

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Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.

Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.