Proverbs 26:12-22

¹²Thou hast seen a man seem wise to himself; an unknowing man shall have hope more than he.

¹³A slow man saith, A lion is in the way, a lioness is in the footpaths.

¹⁴As a door is turned in his hinges; so a slow man in his bed.

¹⁵A slow man hideth his hands under his armpit; and he travaileth, if he turneth them up to his mouth.

¹⁶A slow man seemeth wiser to himself, than seven men speaking sentences.

¹⁷As he that taketh a dog by the ears; so he that passeth, and is unpatient, and is meddled or mingled with the chiding of another man.

¹⁸As he is guilty, that sendeth spears and arrows into death,

¹⁹so a man that annoyeth guilefully his friend, and when he is taken, he shall say, I did playing.

²⁰When trees or woods shall fail, the fire shall be quenched; and when a privy backbiter is withdrawn, strives rest.

²¹As dead coals at or to quick coals, and trees at the fire or wood to fire; so a wrathful man raiseth chidings.

²²The words of a privy backbiter be as simple; and those or they come till to the innerest things of the heart.