Honor doesn’t go with fools any more than snow with
summertime or rain with harvest time!
2 An undeserved curse has no effect. Its intended victim
will be no more harmed by it than by a sparrow or swallow flitting through the
sky.
3 Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle and a
rebel with a rod to his back!
4,5 When arguing with a rebel, don’t use foolish arguments
as he does or you will become as foolish
as he is! Prick his conceit with silly replies!
6 To trust a rebel to convey a message is as foolish as
cutting off your feet and drinking poison!
7 In the mouth of a fool a proverb becomes as useless as
a paralyzed leg.
8 Honoring a rebel will backfire like a stone tied to a
slingshot!
9 A rebel will misapply an illustration so that its point
will no more be felt than a thorn in the hand of a drunkard.
10 The master may get better work from an untrained
apprentice than from a skilled rebel!
11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his
folly.
12 There is one thing worse than a fool and that is a man
who is conceited.
13 The lazy man won’t go out and work. “There might be a
lion outside!” he says.
14 He sticks to his bed like a door to its hinges!
15 He is too tired even to lift his food from his dish to
his mouth!
16 Yet in his own opinion he is smarter than seven wise
men.
17 Yanking a dog’s ears is no more foolish than
interfering in an argument that isn’t any of your business.
18,19 A man who is caught lying to his neighbor and says,
“I was just fooling,” is like a madman throwing firebrands, arrows and death!
20 Fire goes out for lack of fuel and tensions disappear
when gossip stops.
21 A quarrelsome man starts fights as easily as a match
sets fire to paper.
22 Gossip is a dainty morsel eaten with great relish.
23 Pretty words may hide a wicked heart, just as pretty
glaze covers a common clay pot.
24,25,26 A man with hate in his heart may sound pleasant
enough, but don’t believe him, for he is cursing you in his heart. Though he
pretends to be so kind, his hatred will finally come to light for all to see.
27 The man who sets a trap for others will get caught in
it himself. Roll a boulder down on someone and it will roll back and crush you.
28 Flattery is a form of hatred and wounds cruelly.
Text: Children's Children's Bible, Tyndale House Publishing 1972
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