Chapter 26

¹ As dew in harvest, and as rain in summer,

Pr 26:1

² As birds and sparrows fly,

Pr 26:2

³ As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass,

Pr 26:3

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly,

Pr 26:4

⁵ Yet answer a fool according to his folly,

Pr 26:5

⁶ He that sends a message by a foolish messenger

Pr 26:6

⁷ [As well] take away the motion of the legs,

Pr 26:7

⁸ He that binds up a stone in a sling,

Pr 26:8

⁹ Thorns grow in the hand of a drunkard,

Pr 26:9

¹⁰ All the flesh of fools endures much hardship;

Pr 26:10

¹¹ As when a dog goes to his own vomit, and becomes abominable,

Pr 26:11

¹¹ a There is a shame that brings sin:

Pr 26:11

¹² I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise;

Pr 26:12

¹³ A sluggard when sent on a journey says,

Pr 26:13

¹⁴ As a door turns on the hinge,

Pr 26:14

¹⁵ A sluggard having hidden his hand in his bosom,

Pr 26:15

¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser

Pr 26:16

¹⁷ As he that lays hold of a dog’s tail,

Pr 26:17

¹⁸ As those who need correction put forth [fair] words to men,

Pr 26:18

¹⁹ So are all that lay wait for their own friends,

Pr 26:19

²⁰ With much wood fire increases;

Pr 26:20

²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire;

Pr 26:21

²² The words of cunning knaves are soft;

Pr 26:22

²³ Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd:

Pr 26:23

²⁴ A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips,

Pr 26:24

²⁵ Though [thine] enemy entreat thee with a loud voice, consent not:

Pr 26:25

²⁶ He that hides enmity frames deceit: but being easily discerned,

Pr 26:26

²⁷ He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it:

Pr 26:27

²⁸ A lying tongue hates the truth;

Pr 26:28