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Proverbs 26:6

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Never let a fool carry your message. If you do, it will be like cutting off your own feet. You are only asking for trouble.

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To his master who sent him, a messenger who can be trusted is as refreshing as a drink of cold water on a hot summer day.

Sending a lazy person to do anything is as irritating as vinegar on your teeth or smoke in your eyes.

Disaster will catch up to the wicked messenger, but a runner who can be trusted will bring peace.

But the men who had gone with him said, “We cannot fight those people! They are much stronger than we are.”

A fool trying to say something wise is like a crippled person trying to walk.