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Proverbs 26:6

New International Version

Sending a message by the hands of a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison.

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As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy brings healing.

Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him; he refreshes the spirit of his master.

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

Like the useless legs of one who is lame is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”