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    Proverbs 26
    • 1   Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.
    • 2   As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
    • 3   A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
    • 4   Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.
    • 5   Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.
    • 6   He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.
    • 7   The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.
    • 8   Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.
    • 9   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.
    • 10   Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.
    • 11   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.
    • 12   Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
    • 13   The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
    • 14   A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
    • 15   The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
    • 16   The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
    • 17   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.
    • 18   As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
    • 19   So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
    • 20   Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
    • 21   Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
    • 22   The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
    • 23   Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
    • 24   With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;
    • 25   When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:
    • 26   Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
    • 27   He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.
    • 28   A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
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