Proverbs 26:4-10 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

4. Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness or you’ll be like him yourself.

5. Answer a fool according to his foolishness or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.

6. The one who sends a message by a fool’s hand cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

7. A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like lame legs that hang limp.

8. Giving honor to a foolis like binding a stone in a sling.

9. A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a stick with thorns,brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

10. The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing byis like an archer who wounds everyone.

Proverbs 26