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| 26:1 |
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
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| 26:2 |
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.
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| 26:3 |
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
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| 26:4 |
Do not answer fools according to their folly, or you will be a fool yourself.
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| 26:5 |
Answer fools according to their folly, or they will be wise in their own eyes.
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| 26:6 |
It is like cutting off one's foot and drinking down violence, to send a message by a fool.
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| 26:7 |
The legs of a disabled person hang limp; so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
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| 26:8 |
It is like binding a stone in a sling to give honor to a fool.
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| 26:9 |
Like a thornbush brandished by the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
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| 26:10 |
Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
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| 26:11 |
Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.
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| 26:12 |
Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
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| 26:13 |
The lazy person says, "There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!"
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| 26:14 |
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a lazy person in bed.
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| 26:15 |
The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and is too tired to bring it back to the mouth.
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| 26:16 |
The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem than seven who can answer discreetly.
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| 26:17 |
Like somebody who takes a passing dog by the ears is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.
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| 26:18 |
Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows,
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| 26:19 |
so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
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| 26:20 |
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
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| 26:21 |
As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
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| 26:22 |
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
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| 26:23 |
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.
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| 26:24 |
An enemy dissembles in speaking while harboring deceit within;
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| 26:25 |
when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it, for there are seven abominations concealed within;
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| 26:26 |
though hatred is covered with guile, the enemy's wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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| 26:27 |
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.
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| 26:28 |
A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
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