Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor ¹  is not fitting for a fool. ² 

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, ¹  lest you yourself also be like him. ² 

Answer a fool according to his folly, ¹  lest he be wise in his own estimation. ² 

Like tying a stone in a sling, ¹  so is giving honor to a fool.

Like a thorn ¹  that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. ² 

Do you see ¹  a man wise in his own eyes? ²  There is more hope for a fool ³  than for him.

The one who trusts in his own heart ¹  is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom ²  will escape. ³ 

A fool lets fly with all his temper, ¹  but a wise person keeps it back. ² 

Do you see someone ¹  who is hasty in his words? ²  There is more hope for a fool than for him. ³ 

What I am saying with this boastful confidence ¹  I do not say the way the Lord would. ²  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

Surely ¹  one sees ²  that even wise people die; ³  fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away ⁴  and leave their wealth to others. ⁵ 

I will listen to what God the Lord says. ¹  For he will make ²  peace with his people, his faithful followers. ³  Yet they must not ⁴  return to their foolish ways.

“How long will you simpletons ¹  love naiveté? ²  How long ³  will mockers ⁴  delight ⁵  in mockery ⁶  and fools ⁷  hate knowledge?

Jesus ¹  also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down ²  on everyone else.

When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw ¹  this, they were greatly disheartened. ²  They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.