5
A girl with no sense of propriety will disgrace both her husband and her father; neither will have any respect for her.
6
Lecturing your children can sometimes be as out of place as singing to people in mourning, but a whipping is a wise choice of discipline at any time.
7
Trying to teach a fool is like gluing a broken pot back together, like waking someone out of a deep sleep.
8
Explaining something to a fool is like explaining it to a sleepy person; when you have finished, he'll say, "What was that again?"
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.