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Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.
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Like the sparrow in
its fluttering, like the swallow in
its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.
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A whip for the horse! A
abridle for the donkey!
And a rod for the back of fools!
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Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest you also be like him.
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Answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
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He who sends a message by the hand of a fool
Cuts off
his own feet
and drinks violence.
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Like the legs of the lame which hang down,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
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Like one who binds a stone in a sling,
So is he who gives honor to a fool.
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Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
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Like an archer who wounds everyone,
So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
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Like a
adog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who repeats his folly.
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Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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aThe sluggard says, There is a roaring lion on the way;
A lion is in the streets!
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As the door turns upon its hinges,
So does the sluggard upon his bed.
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aThe sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
He gets weary by bringing it to his mouth again.
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The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
Than seven men who can answer discreetly.
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He who passes by
and meddles with strife that does not belong to him,
Is
like one who takes a dog by the ears.
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Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
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So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, Was I not joking?
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For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.
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As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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aThe words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of one’s being.
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Burning lips and a wicked heart
Are
like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
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He who hates disguises
it with his lips,
But he lays up deceit within him;
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When he speaks graciously, do not believe him;
For there are seven abominations in his heart;
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Though his hatred covers itself with guile,
His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.
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Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
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A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.
