Drive out the scorner ¹  and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease. ² 

biblegateway Pro 22:10

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out, Even strife and dishonor will cease.

Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too; then lawsuits and dishonor will cease.

Drive out a mocker, and conflict will leave. Quarreling and abuse will stop.

biblegateway Pro 22:10

Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.

bibleoremus Pro 22:10

Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.

Banish the insolent, and strife goes too; discord and disgrace are ended.

biblegateway Pro 22:10

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave; Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

biblegateway Pro 22:10

Drive out the scorner ¹  and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease. ² 

¹ sn This proverb, written in loose synonymous parallelism, instructs that the scorner should be removed because he causes strife. The “scorner” is לֵץ (lets), the one the book of Proverbs says cannot be changed with discipline or correction, but despises and disrupts anything that is morally or socially constructive.

² tc The LXX freely adds “when he sits in council (ἐν συνεδρίῳ, ejn sunedriw), he insults everyone.” The MT does not suggest that the setting is in a court of law; so the LXX addition is highly unlikely.