Proverbs 26:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.

³ A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.