Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Children who are puffed up with disdain and haughtiness blemish the nobility of their family.]
Good News Translation®
Explaining something to a fool is like explaining it to a sleepy person; when you have finished, he'll say, What was that again?
Wycliffe Bible
He that telleth wisdom to a fool, speaketh with a man sleeping; and in the end of the telling he shall say, Who is this?
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
He who tells a story to a fool tells it to a drowsy man; and at the end he will say, “What is it?”
Revised Standard Version
He who tells a story to a fool tells it to a drowsy man; and at the end he will say, “What is it?”