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Some conflict has a name and an address. Remove the scoffer and the quarrels leave with him; they were never free-floating, they were his luggage.
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The scoffer is this book's most treatment-resistant character: the mocker who cannot be corrected because correction is his raw material (9:7–8, 15:12). He does not have conflicts; he manufactures them. The verse's insight is diagnostic before it is procedural: in some rooms the strife is not structural but personal, radiating from a single source no process will fix, because the source is not malfunctioning, scoffing is what he does. Wisdom exhausts gentler tools first, and this book is full of them. It just refuses to pretend the last tool does not exist. Some peace is not negotiated; it is restored by subtraction.
Related: Proverbs 26:20 · Titus 3:10 · 1 Corinthians 5:6–7
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