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Proverbs 26:1-3
Contemporary English Version

Don't Be a Fool

26 Expecting snow in summer
    and rain in the dry season
makes more sense
    than honoring a fool.
2 A curse you don't deserve
will take wings and fly away
    like a sparrow or a swallow.
3 Horses and donkeys
must be beaten and bridled—
    and so must fools.

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Proverbs 26:1-3
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26 Like snow in summer or rain(A) in harvest,
    honor is not fitting for a fool.(B)
2 Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,
    an undeserved curse does not come to rest.(C)
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,(D)
    and a rod for the backs of fools!(E)

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