[But] like an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or chance passers-by.
Behold, the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall be recompensed on earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner! And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and wicked? [I Pet. 4:18.]
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
Like a thorn that goes [without being felt] into the hand of a drunken man, so is a proverb in the mouth of a [self-confident] fool.
For He will render to every man according to his works [justly, as his deeds deserve]: [Ps. 62:12.]