1. Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor is inappropriate for a fool.
2. Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.
3. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools.
4. Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness or you’ll be like him yourself.
5. Answer a fool according to his foolishness or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.
6. The one who sends a message by a fool’s hand cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
7. A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like lame legs that hang limp.
8. Giving honor to a foolis like binding a stone in a sling.
9. A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a stick with thorns,brandished by the hand of a drunkard.