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¹ As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so, unbecoming to a dullard is honour.

² As a sparrow in wandering, as a swallow in flying, so, a causeless curse, shall not alight.

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle a for the ass, and a rod for the back of dullards.

⁴ Do not answer a dullard, according to his folly, lest, even thou thyself, become like him;⁵ Answer a dullard according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.

⁶ One who cutteth off feet, one who drinketh down wrong, is he who sendeth a message by the hand of a dullard.⁷ Useless are the legs of the lame, and a proverb, in the mouth of a dullard.⁸ Like tying a stone to a sling, so, is he that giveth honour, to a dullard.⁹ A brier cometh into the hand of a drunken-man, a proverb into the mouth of dullards.

¹⁰ As an archer who woundeth every thing, so one who hireth a dullard, and a drunkard crossing the sea.

¹¹ As, a dog, returneth onto his own vomit, a dullard, repeateth his folly.

¹² Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eye, - more hope of a dullard, than of him!

¹³ Saith the sluggard, A roaring lion in the road! A tearing lion in the midst of the broadways.

¹⁴ The door, turneth on its hinges, and, the sluggard, upon his bed.

¹⁵ The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

¹⁶ Wiser is the sluggard in his own eyes, than, seven persons, who can answer with judgment.

¹⁷ As he who layeth hold of the ears of a dog, is a passer-by, who giveth vent to his wrath over a quarrel, not his!

¹⁸ As a madman throwing firebrands, arrows and death,¹⁹ So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?

²⁰ Without wood a fire is quenched, and, where there is no tattler, strife is hushed.²¹ Black coal to burning blocks, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man, for kindling strife.²² the words of a tattler, are dainties, they, therefore go down into the chambers of the inner man.

²³ Dross silver overlaid upon earthenware, so are burning lips, with a mischievous heart:

²⁴ With his lips, the hater dissembleth, but, within himself, he layeth up deceit:²⁵ Though he make gracious his voice, do not trust him, for, seven abominations, are in his heart:²⁶ Hatred may clothe itself with guile, his wickedness shall be disclosed in the convocation.

²⁷ He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, shall fall, and, he that rolleth a stone, upon himself, shall it return.

²⁸ A false tongue, hateth them who are crushed by it, and, a flattering mouth, worketh occasion of stumbling.