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26:1  Honor doesn’t go with fools any more than snow with summertime or rain with harvesttime!
26:2  An undeserved curse has no effect. Its intended victim will be no more harmed by it than by a sparrow or swallow flitting through the sky.
26:3  Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle, and a rebel with a rod to his back!
26:4  When arguing with a rebel, don’t use foolish arguments as he does, or you will become as foolish as he is! Prick his conceit with silly replies!
26:5  When arguing with a rebel, don’t use foolish arguments as he does, or you will become as foolish as he is! Prick his conceit with silly replies!
26:6  To trust a rebel to convey a message is as foolish as cutting off your feet and drinking poison!
26:7  In the mouth of a fool a proverb becomes as useless as a paralyzed leg.
26:8  Honoring a rebel will backfire like a stone tied to a slingshot!
26:9  A rebel will misapply an illustration so that its point will no more be felt than a thorn in the hand of a drunkard.
26:10  The master may get better work from an untrained apprentice than from a skilled rebel!
26:11  As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
26:12  There is one thing worse than a fool, and that is a man who is conceited.
26:13  The lazy man won’t go out and work. “There might be a lion outside!” he says.
26:14  He sticks to his bed like a door to its hinges!
26:15  He is too tired even to lift his food from his dish to his mouth!
26:16  Yet in his own opinion he is smarter than seven wise men.
26:17  Yanking a dog’s ears is no more foolish than interfering in an argument that isn’t any of your business.
26:18  A man who is caught lying to his neighbor and says, “I was just fooling,” is like a madman throwing around firebrands, arrows, and death!
26:19  A man who is caught lying to his neighbor and says, “I was just fooling,” is like a madman throwing around firebrands, arrows, and death!
26:20  Fire goes out for lack of fuel, and tensions disappear when gossip stops.
26:21  A quarrelsome man starts fights as easily as a match sets fire to paper.
26:22  Gossip is a dainty morsel eaten with great relish.
26:23  Pretty words may hide a wicked heart, just as a pretty glaze covers a common clay pot.
26:24  A man with hate in his heart may sound pleasant enough, but don’t believe him; for he is cursing you in his heart. Though he pretends to be so kind, his hatred will finally come to light for all to see.
26:25  A man with hate in his heart may sound pleasant enough, but don’t believe him; for he is cursing you in his heart. Though he pretends to be so kind, his hatred will finally come to light for all to see.
26:26  A man with hate in his heart may sound pleasant enough, but don’t believe him; for he is cursing you in his heart. Though he pretends to be so kind, his hatred will finally come to light for all to see.
26:27  The man who sets a trap for others will get caught in it himself. Roll a boulder down on someone, and it will roll back and crush you.
26:28  Flattery is a form of hatred and wounds cruelly.