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Proverbs 26 📜 📕 ↷
Similitudes and Instructions
1 As snow in the summer, and rain in the harvest: so is glory undecent for a fool.📜💬📚
2 As a bird flying to other places, & a sparrow going whither he lift: so a curse uttered in vain shall light upon some man.📜💬📚
3 A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod on the back of the unwise.📜💬📚
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like to him.📜💬📚
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he seem to himself to be wise.📜💬📚
6 Lame of feet, and drinking iniquity, he that sendeth words by a foolish messenger.📜💬📚
7 As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is undecent in the mouth of fools.📜💬📚
8 As he that casteth a stone into the heap of Mercury: so he that giveth honour to the unwise.📜💬📚
9 As if a thorn should grow in the hand of the drunkard: so a parable in the mouth of fools.📜💬📚
10 Judgement determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth angers.📜💬📚
11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so the unwise that reiterateth his folly.📜💬📚
12 Hast thou seen a man seem to himself wise? The fool shall have hope rather than he.📜💬📚
13 The slothful saith: A lion is in the way, and a lioness in the journeys:📜💬📚
14 as a door turneth on his hinge so the slothful in his bed.📜💬📚
15 The slothful hideth his hand under the arm-hole, and is grieved if he turneth it to his mouth.📜💬📚
16 The slothful seemeth wiser to himself, than seven men speaking sentences.📜💬📚
17 As he that taketh a dog by the ears, so he that passeth by impatient, and meddleth with an other man's brawl.📜💬📚
18 As he is hurtful that shooteth arrows and spears unto death:📜💬📚
19 so a man that hurteth his friend fraudulently: and when he is taken withal saith: I did it in jest.📜💬📚
20 When wood faileth, the fire shall be extinguished: and the whisperer taken away, brawls cease.📜💬📚
21 As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man raiseth brawls.📜💬📚
22 The words of the whisperer as it were simple, and the same come to the inmost parts of the belly.📜💬📚
23 As if thou wouldest adorn an earthen vessel with drossy silver, so swelling lips joined with a most wicked heart.📜💬📚
24 An enemy is perceived by his lips, when he shall handle deceipts in his heart.📜💬📚
25 When he shall submit his voice, believe him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.📜💬📚
26 He that covereth hatred fraudulently, his malice shall be revealed in the councel.📜💬📚
27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.📜💬📚
28 A deceitful tongue loveth not truth, and a slipper mouth worketh ruins.📜💬📚
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