Proverbs 26:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not answer fools according to their folly, lest you too become like them.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

He spoke to them as the young men had advised: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will make it heavier. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12:16

When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king: “What share have we in David? We have no heritage in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your own house, David.” So Israel went off to their tents.

Proverbs 17:14

The start of strife is like the opening of a dam; check a quarrel before it bursts forth!

Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak in the hearing of fools; they will despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 26:5

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

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise person disputes with a fool, there is railing and ridicule but no resolution.

Isaiah 36:21

But they remained silent and did not answer at all, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces. The Answer to Prayers.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.

Jude 1:9

Yet the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil in a dispute over the body of Moses, did not venture to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”