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Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
Read Proverbs 9:8 Using Other Translations
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
So don’t bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you. But correct the wise, and they will love you.
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