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📚Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
so honour is not fitting for a fool.
2 📚✭Like the flitting bird,
like the flying swallow,
so the curse does not come without cause.
3 📚✭A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
and a rod for the fool’s back.
4 📚✭Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
lest you also become like him.
5 📚Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own eyes.
6 📚He who sends a message by the hand
of a fool is cutting off the feet,
and drinking damage.
7 📚The legs of the lame are not equal,
like a proverb in the mouth of fools.
8 📚Like one who ties up a stone in a sling,
is he who gives honour to a fool.
9 📚Like a thorn piercing the hand
of a drunkard, is a proverb
in the mouth of fools.
10 📚✭The great God who formed
all things both pays the fool,
and gives transgressors their wages.
11 📚✭As a dog returns to his vomit,
so a fool returns to his folly.
12 📚✭Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool
than for him.
13 📚The lazy person says,
“There is a lion in the road!
A lion is in the streets!”
14 📚As the door turns on its hinges,
so the lazy one turns on his bed.
15 📚The lazy person buries his hand
in the dish;
it is a weariness to him to bring it
back to his mouth.
16 📚The lazy person is wiser
in his own eyes than seven men
who can give a reason.
17 📚He who is passing by and meddles
with strife that does not pertain to him,
is like one who takes a dog by the ears.
18 📚Like a madman who hurls fire brands,
arrows, and death,
19 📚Is the man who deceives
his neighbor and says,
“I was just joking!”
20 📚✭Where there is no wood,
the fire goes out;
so where there is no talebearer,
the strife ceases.
21 📚As charcoal is to burning embers
and wood to fire,
so is a quarrelsome man to kindle strife.
22 📚The words of a talebearer are
like wounds,
and they go down into the inmost parts
of the body.
23 📚✭Burning lips and a wicked heart
are like an earthen pot covered
with silver dross.
24 📚He who hates, disguises this
with his lips,
and stores up deceit within him;
25 📚When he speaks graciously,
do not believe him; for there are
seven abominations in his heart.
26 📚The wickedness of the one whose
hatred is covered by deceit will be revealed
before the whole congregation.
27 📚✭Whoever digs a pit will fall in it,
and the one who rolls a stone,
it will come back on him.
28 📚A lying tongue hates those it harms,
and a flattering mouth works ruin.