1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet,
7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so
8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so
9 As
10 The great
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit,
12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
13 The slothful
14 As
15 The slothful hideth his hand in
16 The sluggard
17 He that passeth by,
18 As a mad
19 So
20 Where no wood is,
21 As
22 The words of a talebearer
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for
26 Whose
27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
28 A lying tongue hateth