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26:1  Like snow during summer and rain during the harvest, so honor is not appropriate for a fool.
26:2  Like a migrating bird or a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse does not come to rest.
26:3  A whip is for horses, a bridle for donkeys, and a rod for the backs of fools.
26:4  Do not answer a fool according to his folly. If you do, you yourself will become like him.
26:5  Answer a fool according to his folly. If you do not, he will consider himself wise.
26:6  It is like cutting off your own feet or drinking violence when a person sends messages in the hand of a fool.
26:7  The legs of a lame person dangle. So does a proverb in the mouth of fools.
26:8  Giving honor to a fool is like tying a stone in a slingshot.
26:9  A proverb in the mouth of a fool is like a thorn in a drunkard’s hand.
26:10  One who hires a fool or someone just passing by is like an archer who wounds at random.
26:11  As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his stupidity.
26:12  Have you seen a person who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
26:13  A lazy person says, “There’s a ferocious lion in the street. There’s a lion in the public square!”
26:14  A door turns on its hinges, and a lazy person turns on his bed.
26:15  A lazy person buries his hand in a dish, but he is too tired to return it to his mouth.
26:16  A lazy person considers himself wiser than seven people who answer sensibly.
26:17  A passerby who meddles in a quarrel that is not his is like a person who grabs a dog by the ears.
26:18  A person who deceives his neighbor and then says, “I was only joking,”
26:19  is like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows.
26:20  When there is no more wood, a fire goes out, and without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
26:21  As charcoal is to hot embers and as wood is to fire, so a quarrelsome person is to igniting a fight.
26:22  Words of a gossip are like food that is easy to swallow. They go down to the depths of one’s heart.
26:23  Fervent lips and an evil heart are like a glaze covering a clay pot.
26:24  With his lips a person hides his hatred, but he hides deceit inside.
26:25  When his voice sounds gracious, do not believe him, because seven abominations are in his heart.
26:26  His hatred covers itself with deceit, but his evil will be revealed in the assembly.
26:27  The person who digs a pit will fall into it. The person who rolls away a stone—it will roll back over him.
26:28  A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a smooth mouth causes ruin.