⁴ Do not answer fools according to their folly,
    lest you be a fool yourself.^(A)
5 Answer fools according to their folly,
    lest they be wise in their own eyes.^(B)

¹⁷ Like someone who takes a passing dog by the ears
    is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.^(A)

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out,
    and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.^(A)
21 As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire,
    so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.^(B)

²² One given to anger stirs up strife,
    and the hothead causes much transgression.^(A)

³³ For as pressing milk produces curds
    and pressing the nose produces blood,
    so pressing anger produces strife.^(A)