3 Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle,and a fool with a rod to his back!
4 Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools,or you will become as foolish as they are.
5 Be sure to answer the foolish arguments of fools,or they will become wise in their own estimation.
6 Trusting a fool to convey a messageis like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison!
7 A proverb in the mouth of a foolis as useless as a paralyzed leg.
8 Honoring a foolis as foolish as tying a stone to a slingshot.
9 A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a thorny branch brandished by a drunk.