Proverbs 26:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him 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

he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12:16

And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

Proverbs 23:9

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

Proverbs 26:5

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

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 dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Jude 1:9

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”