1 Like snow in summer, like rain in harvest,honor for a fool is out of place.
2 Like the sparrow in its flitting, like the swallow in its flight,a curse uncalled-for never lands.
3 The whip for the horse, the bridle for the ass,and the rod for the back of fools.
4 Do not answer fools according to their folly,lest you too become like them.
5 Answer fools according to their folly,lest they become wise in their own eyes.
6 Those who send messages by a foolcut off their feet; they drink down violence.
7 A proverb in the mouth of a foolhangs limp, like crippled legs.