Proverbs 29:9
Good News Translation
When an intelligent person brings a lawsuit against a fool, the fool only laughs and becomes loud and abusive.

Contemporary English Version
Be wise and don't sue a fool. You won't get satisfaction, because all the fool will do is sneer and shout.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest.

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If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest.

Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.

Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.

Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

Matthew 11:17-19 Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned. . . .

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
8Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath. 9If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest.10Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.…
Cross References
Proverbs 17:12
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.

Proverbs 29:8
Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.

Proverbs 29:10
Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.

Additional Translations
If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.

If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, [he] hath no rest.

If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rageth or laugheth, there is no rest.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.
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