| 1 | Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. |
| 2 | Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere. |
| 3 | A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. |
| 4 | Do not answer fools according to their folly, or you will be a fool yourself. |
| 5 | Answer fools according to their folly, or they will be wise in their own eyes. |
| 6 | It is like cutting off one’s foot and drinking down violence, to send a message by a fool. |
| 7 | The legs of a disabled person hang limp; so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool. |
| 8 | It is like binding a stone in a sling to give honor to a fool. |
| 9 | Like a thornbush brandished by the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. |
| 10 | Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard. |
| 11 | Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly. |
| 12 | Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them. |
| 13 | The lazy person says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!” |
| 14 | As a door turns on its hinges, so does a lazy person in bed. |
| 15 | The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and is too tired to bring it back to the mouth. |
| 16 | The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem than seven who can answer discreetly. |
| 17 | Like somebody who takes a passing dog by the ears is one who meddles in the quarrel of another. |
| 18 | Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows, |
| 19 | so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, “I am only joking!” |
| 20 | For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. |
| 21 | As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife. |
| 22 | The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. |
| 23 | Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart. |
| 24 | An enemy dissembles in speaking while harboring deceit within; |
| 25 | when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it, for there are seven abominations concealed within; |
| 26 | though hatred is covered with guile, the enemy’s wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. |
| 27 | Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling. |
| 28 | A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin. |
