26 Like snow in the summer or rain at harvest,
    so honor isn’t appropriate for a fool.

³ A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey,
    and a rod for the back of fools.
⁴ Don’t answer fools according to their folly,
    or you will become like them yourself.
⁵ Answer fools according to their folly,
    or they will deem themselves wise.
⁶ Sending messages with a fool
    is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking down violence.
⁷ As legs dangle from a disabled person,
    so does a proverb in the mouth of fools.
⁸ Like tying a stone in a sling,
    so is giving respect to a fool.
⁹ Like a thorny bush in the hand of a drunk,
    so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
¹⁰ Like an archer who wounds someone randomly,
    so is one who hires a fool or a passerby.
¹¹ Like a dog that returns to its vomit,
    so a fool repeats foolish mistakes.
¹² Do you see people who consider themselves wise?
    There is more hope for a fool than for them.