1
Like snow in the summer or rain at harvest, so honor isn't appropriate for a fool.
2
Like a darting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse never arrives.
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.