Holy Bible - New Revised Standard Version(NRSV)

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