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Proverbs - ch 26 v 1 - 20
- Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.
- As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
- A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
- Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.
- Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.
- He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.
- The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.
- Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.
- Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
- Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.
- Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.
- Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
- The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
- A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
- The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
- The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
- He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.
- As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
- So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
- Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
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