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Proverbs 26:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It is like cutting off one’s foot and drinking down violence, to send a message by a fool.

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Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.

A bad messenger brings trouble, but a faithful envoy, healing.

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest are faithful messengers to those who send them; they refresh the spirit of their masters.

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

The legs of a lame person hang limp; so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”