Proverbs 26:1-6

¹Just like SIM it is not appropriate for snow to fall in summer time, or rain to fall at harvest time, it is not appropriate to praise/honor foolish people.

²Like SIM birds that fly by and do not alight/land on anything, if someone curses you, it cannot hurt you if you ◄do not deserve them/have not done to him what is wrong►.

³It is necessary to whip a horse and to put a bridle on a donkey to force them to go where we want them to go, and similarly SIM it is often necessary to strike foolish people with a stick to cause them to do what is right.

⁴If a foolish person asks a foolish question, do not answer him, because if you answer his question, you are just as foolish as he is.

⁵If you give a foolish answer to someone who asks a foolish question, he will realize that he is ◄not very wise/foolish►.

⁶Anyone who asks a foolish person to take a message to someone is himself doing something as foolish as cutting off his own feet or drinking poison.