Proverbs 17:7-10

⁷High-toned language is not seemly to a worthless fool: and yet much less the language of falsehood to a noble.

⁸As a precious stone appeareth a bribe in the eyes of him that obtaineth it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

⁹He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth confident friends.

¹⁰A reproof penetrateth more deeply into a wise man, than a hundred stripes into a fool.