Wisdom for Different Audiences

Proverbs 23:9

Showing verse 9 with surrounding context.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.