Proverbs 26:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Do not answer fools according to their folly, lest you be a fool yourself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Answer not a [self-confident] fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

Common English Bible

⁴ Don’t answer fools according to their folly, or you will become like them yourself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Do not respond to the foolish according to his folly, lest you become like him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.

Proverbs 26:4 Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12:16

When all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What share do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David.” So Israel went away to their tents.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so stop before the quarrel breaks out.

Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, who will only despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 26:5

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

Proverbs 29:9

If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

Isaiah 36:21

But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.

Jude 1:9

But when the archangel Michael disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”