Proverbs 26
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1Praise for a fool is out of place, like snow in summer or rain at harvest time.
2Curses cannot hurt you unless you deserve them. They are like birds that fly by and never settle.
3You have to whip a horse, you have to bridle a donkey, and you have to beat a fool.
4If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.
5Give a silly answer to a silly question, and the one who asked it will realize that he's not as clever as he thinks.
6If you let a fool deliver a message, you might as well cut off your own feet; you are asking for trouble.
7A fool can use a proverb about as well as crippled people can use their legs.
8Praising someone who is stupid makes as much sense as tying a stone in a sling.
9A fool quoting a wise saying reminds you of a drunk trying to pick a thorn out of his hand.
10An employer who hires any fool that comes along is only hurting everybody concerned.#26.10 Verse 10 in Hebrew is unclear.
11A fool doing some stupid thing a second time is like a dog going back to its vomit.
12The most stupid fool is better off than someone who thinks he is wise when he is not.
13Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of? Lions?
14Lazy people turn over in bed. They get no farther than a door swinging on its hinges.
15Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.
16A lazy person will think he is more intelligent than seven people who can give good reasons for their opinions.
17Getting involved in an argument that is none of your business is like going down the street and grabbing a dog by the ears.
18-19Someone who misleads someone else and then claims that he was only joking is like a mad person playing with a deadly weapon.
20Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, quarrelling stops.
21Charcoal keeps the embers glowing, wood keeps the fire burning, and troublemakers keep arguments alive.
22Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it!
23Insincere#26.23 One ancient translation Insincere; Hebrew Burning. talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glaze#26.23 Probable text fine glaze; Hebrew unrefined silver. on a cheap clay pot.
24A hypocrite hides hatred behind flattering words. 25They may sound fine, but don't believe him, because his heart is filled to the brim with hate. 26He may disguise his hatred, but everyone will see the evil things he does.
27People who set traps for others get caught themselves. People who start landslides get crushed.
28You have to hate someone to want to hurt him with lies. Insincere talk brings nothing but ruin.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Mishle 26
26
1As sheleg (snow) in kayitz (summer), and as matar (rain) at katzir (harvest), so kavod is not fitting for a kesil (fool).
2As the tzippor in its fluttering, as the swallow in its flying, so the kelelah (curse) without cause shall not alight.
3A shot (whip) for the sus, a bridle for the chamor, and a shevet for the back of kesilim.
4Answer not a kesil (fool) according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5Answer a kesil (fool) according to his folly, lest he be chacham in his own eyes.
6He that sendeth a message by the yad of a kesil (fool) cutteth off the raglayim, and drinketh chamas.
7The legs of the pisei'ach (lame man) hang limp; so is a mashal in the peh (mouth) of kesilim.
8As he that bindeth an even (stone) in a sling, so is he that giveth kavod to a kesil (fool).
9As a thornbush goeth up into the yad of a shikkor, so is a mashal in the peh (mouth) of kesilim.
10Like an archer wounding all, so is he that hireth the kesil (fool), or hireth the passerby.
11As a kelev returneth to his vomit, so a kesil (fool) returneth to his folly.
12Seest thou an ish chacham in his own eyes? There is more tikvah (hope) for a kesil (fool) than for him.
13The atzel (sluggard, lazy one) saith, There is a lion in the derech; an ari is in the rechovot.
14As the delet (door) turneth upon its hinges, so doth the atzel (sluggard, lazy one) upon his mittah (bed).
15The atzel (sluggard, lazy one) hideth his yad in his dish; itʼs too tiring to bring it back to his peh (mouth) again.
16The atzel (sluggard, lazy one) is chacham in his own eyes, more than seven that give an excellent answer.
17He that passeth by, and meddleth in a quarrel that doth not belong to him, is like one that taketh a kelev by the oznayim.
18As a mad man who shooteth firebrands, khitzim (arrows), and mavet,
19So is the ish that deceiveth his re'a, and saith, Am I not just having a laugh?
20Where no wood is, there the eish goeth out; so where there is no nirgan (gossip, slanderer, talebearer), the strife dieth down.
21As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to eish; so is a contentious ish to kindle strife.
22The devarim of a nirgan (gossip, slanderer, talebearer) are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost chambers of the beten.
23Fervent sfatayim (lips) and a lev rah are like earthenware covered with silver dross.
24He that hateth disguises it with his sfatayim (lips), and within harboreth mirmah (deceit);
25When he speaketh fair, believe him not; for there are sheva to'avot in his lev.
26Whose hatred is covered by guile, yet his wickedness shall be exposed before the whole kahal.
27He who diggeth a shachat (pit) shall fall therein, and he that rolleth an even (stone), it will roll back upon him.
28A lashon sheker hateth those that are crushed by it; and a flattering peh (mouth) worketh ruin.
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