261Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,so honor is not fitting for a fool.+2Like a fluttering sparrow,like a darting swallow,so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.+3A whip is for the horse,a bridle for the donkey,and a rod for the back of fools!+4Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,lest you also be like him.+5Answer a fool according to his folly,lest he be wise in his own eyes.+6One who sends a message by the hand of a foolis cutting off feet and drinking violence.+7Like the legs of the lame that hang loose,so is a parable in the mouth of fools.+8As one who binds a stone in a sling,so is he who gives honor to a fool.+9Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard,so is a parable in the mouth of fools.+10As an archer who wounds all,so is he who hires a foolor he who hires those who pass by.+11As a dog that returns to his vomit,so is a fool who repeats his folly.+12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.+13The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!A fierce lion roams the streets!”+14As the door turns on its hinges,so does the sluggard on his bed.+15The sluggard buries his hand in the dish.He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.+16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyesthan seven men who answer with discretion.+17Like one who grabs a dog’s earsis one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.+18Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,+19is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”+20For lack of wood a fire goes out.Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.+21As coals are to hot embers,and wood to fire,so is a contentious man to kindling strife.+22The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,they go down into the innermost parts.+23Like silver dross on an earthen vesselare the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.+24A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,but he harbors evil in his heart.+25When his speech is charming, don’t believe him;for there are seven abominations in his heart.+26His malice may be concealed by deception,but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.+27Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it.Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.+28A lying tongue hates those it hurts;and a flattering mouth works ruin.+
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