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In the earsבְּאָזְנֵיof a senseless manכְסִילdo notאַלspeak,תְּדַבֵּרforכִּיhe will despiseיָבוּזthe prudenceלְשֵׂכֶלof your words.מִלֶּיךָ
Proverbs 23:9
Study it in the app“In the ears of a senseless man do not speak, for he will despise the prudence of your words.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 23:9, word by word
- In the earsאָזְנֵיazne
hearing
The ear that listens: "incline your ear".
Where else “azne” appears- of a senseless manכְסִילchesil
senseless, fool
Fool: not someone who knows little, but someone who despises wisdom and trusts in himself.
Where else “chesil” appears- speakתְּדַבֵּרtedaber
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “tedaber” appears- he will despiseיָבוּזyavuz
despise
To despise, to think little of; to treat something or someone as worthless.
Where else “yavuz” appears- the prudenceשֵׂכֶלsechel
insight
The sense to act well.
Where else “sechel” appears- of your wordsמִלֶּיmile
word, speech
A word, a saying; what someone says. It is a poetic word, used very often in the book of Job.
Where else “mile” appears
The context
8The morsel you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will have wasted your pleasant words.
9 · This verse (above)
10Do not move the ancient boundary, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless;