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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/25.htm" title="Proverbs 25">◄</a> Proverbs 26 <a href="../proverbs/27.htm" title="Proverbs 27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"><div class="poetry"> <p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so honor is not fitting for a fool.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">an undeserved curse goes nowhere.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a rod for the back of fools.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Do not answer fools according to their folly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or you will be a fool yourself.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Answer fools according to their folly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or they will be wise in their own eyes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>It is like cutting off one’s foot and drinking down violence,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to send a message by a fool.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The legs of a disabled person hang limp;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>It is like binding a stone in a sling</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to give honor to a fool.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Like a thornbush brandished by the hand of a drunkard</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Like an archer who wounds everybody</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19222a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Like a dog that returns to its vomit</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">is a fool who reverts to his folly.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Do you see persons wise in their own eyes?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">There is more hope for fools than for them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The lazy person says, “There is a lion in the road!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">There is a lion in the streets!”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>As a door turns on its hinges,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so does a lazy person in bed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The lazy person buries a hand in the dish,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and is too tired to bring it back to the mouth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">than seven who can answer discreetly.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Like somebody who takes a passing dog by the ears</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows,</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>so is one who deceives a neighbor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and says, “I am only joking!”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>For lack of wood the fire goes out,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they go down into the inner parts of the body.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Like the glaze<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19235b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> covering an earthen vessel</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">are smooth<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19235c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> lips with an evil heart.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>An enemy dissembles in speaking</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">while harboring deceit within;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for there are seven abominations concealed within;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>though hatred is covered with guile,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the enemy’s wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>A lying tongue hates its victims,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a flattering mouth works ruin.</span></span></p> </div><A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Proverbs 26:10">Proverbs 26:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Proverbs 26:23">Proverbs 26:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>silver of dross</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Proverbs 26:23">Proverbs 26:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>burning</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United 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