New Revised Standard Version
If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

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.

New American Bible
If a wise person disputes with a fool, there is railing and ridicule but no resolution.

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

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. . . .