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26Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,
so honor is not fitting for a fool.
²Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
an undeserved curse goes nowhere.
³A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
and a rod for the back of fools.
⁴Do not answer fools according to their folly,
or you will be a fool yourself.
⁵Answer fools according to their folly,
or they will be wise in their own eyes.
⁶It is like cutting off one’s foot and drinking down violence,
to send a message by a fool.
⁷The legs of a disabled person hang limp;
so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
⁸It is like binding a stone in a sling
to give honor to a fool.
⁹Like a thornbush brandished by the hand of a drunkard
is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
¹⁰Like an archer who wounds everybody
is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
¹¹Like a dog that returns to its vomit
is a fool who reverts to his folly.