Proverbs 26:16-23

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²⁰When trees or woods shall fail, the fire shall be quenched; and when a privy backbiter is withdrawn, strives rest.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

²³As if thou wouldest adorn a vessel of earth with the dross of silver, so be swelling lips fellowshipped with a full wicked heart.