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