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Proverbs 26:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Answer fools according to their folly, lest they be wise in their own eyes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own conceit.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Answer a [self-confident] fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes and conceit. [Matt. 16:1-4; 21:24-27.]

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American Standard Version (1901)

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own conceit.

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Common English Bible

Answer fools according to their folly, or they will deem themselves wise.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

Respond to the foolish according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.

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Proverbs 26:5
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Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.


Do not answer fools according to their folly, lest you be a fool yourself.


It is like cutting off one’s foot and drinking down violence, to send a message by a fool.


The rich is wise in self-esteem, but an intelligent poor person sees through the pose.


Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.


Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight!


When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”


I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.


Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are.


That testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so that they may become sound in the faith,