⁴ Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,
    lest you also be like him.
⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly,
    lest he be wise in his own eyes.

¹⁷ Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
    is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

²⁰ For lack of wood a fire goes out.
    Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
²¹ As coals are to hot embers,
    and wood to fire,
    so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

²² An angry man stirs up strife,
    and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

³³     For as the churning of milk produces butter,
    and the wringing of the nose produces blood;
    so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”