Proverbs 17:12
New Living Translation
12 It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than to confront a fool caught in foolishness.
Proverbs 17:12
Legacy Standard Bible
Proverbs 23:9
New Living Translation
9 Don’t waste your breath on fools,
for they will despise the wisest advice.
Proverbs 23:9
Legacy Standard Bible
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:9 Lit ears
Proverbs 26:4-11
New Living Translation
4 Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools,
or you will become as foolish as they are.
5 Be sure to answer the foolish arguments of fools,
or they will become wise in their own estimation.
6 Trusting a fool to convey a message
is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison!
7 A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is as useless as a paralyzed leg.
8 Honoring a fool
is as foolish as tying a stone to a slingshot.
9 A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like a thorny branch brandished by a drunk.
10 An employer who hires a fool or a bystander
is like an archer who shoots at random.
11 As a dog returns to its vomit,
so a fool repeats his foolishness.
Proverbs 26:4-11
Legacy Standard Bible
4 (A)Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest you yourself also be like him.
5 (B)Answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest he be (C)wise in his own eyes.
6 He cuts off his own feet and drinks violence
Who sends words by the hand of a fool.
7 Like the legs which hang limp on the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
8 Like [a]one who binds a stone in a sling,
So is he who gives glory to a fool.
9 Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
10 [b]Like an archer who wounds everyone,
So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
11 Like (D)a dog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who (E)repeats [c]his folly.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 26:8 Lit the binding of
- Proverbs 26:10 Or A master workman produces all things, But he who hires a fool is like one who hires those who pass by
- Proverbs 26:11 Lit with his
Proverbs 27:22
New Living Translation
22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,
even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
Proverbs 27:22
Legacy Standard Bible
22 Though you (A)pound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain,
His [a]folly will not turn aside from him.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 27:22 A lack of wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; the activity of an ignorant fool
Proverbs 29:9
New Living Translation
9 If a wise person takes a fool to court,
there will be ranting and ridicule but no satisfaction.
Proverbs 29:9
Legacy Standard Bible
9 When a wise man is brought into judgment with a man who is an ignorant fool,
[a]The ignorant fool both rages and laughs, and there is no rest.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 29:9 Lit He
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