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| The Book of Proverbs 26 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:1 | Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:2 | As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:3 | A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:4 | Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:5 | Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:6 | He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:7 | The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:8 | Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:9 | Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:10 | Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:11 | Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:12 | Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:13 | The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:14 | A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:15 | The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:16 | The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:17 | He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:18 | As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death, | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:19 | So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:20 | Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:21 | Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:22 | The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:23 | Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:24 | With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:25 | When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:26 | Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:27 | He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 26:28 | A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling. | |||||||||||||||
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