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1 Like the snow in the summer, and like the rain in the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. 2 Like the sparrow in fluttering, like the swallow in flying, so a curse without cause does not come. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools! 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be likened to him—even you. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his eyes. 6 Cutting off feet, drinking violence, is sending a message by the hand of fool. 7 Legs hanging limp from lameness is a proverb in the mouth of fools. 8 Binding up a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool. 9 A thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools. 10 An archer piercing anything, so is hiring a fool or hiring those passing by. 11 Like a dog returning to its vomit is a fool repeating his folly. 12 Do you see a man wise in his eyes? Hope is for a fool more than him. 13 A lazy one says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion is in the broad places!” 14 The door that turns about on its hinges, so is a lazy one upon his bed. 15 A lazy one hides his hand in the bowl; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth. 16 Wiser is a lazy one in his eyes, than seven returning a reason. 17 One grabbing hold on the ears of a dog passing by, is a passerby in a quarrel not unto him. 18 Like a madman shooting firebrands arrows, and death, 19 so is the man who has deceived his neighbor, and he says, “Am I not playing?” Proverbs 26:1-19, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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