Proverbs 26:4

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Answer thou not to a fool after his folly, lest thou be made like him.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

and he spake to them by the counsel of [the] young men, and said, My father made grievous your yoke, forsooth I shall add to your yoke; my father beat you with scourges, but I shall beat you with scorpions.

1 Kings 12:16

Then the people saw, that the king would not hear them, and the people answered to the king, and said, What part is to us in David, either what heritage in the son of Jesse? Israel, turn thou again into thy tabernacles; now, David, see thou to thine house. And Israel went into his tabernacles.

Proverbs 17:14

He that letteth out water, is the head of strives; and before that he suffereth wrong, he forsaketh doom.

Proverbs 23:9

Speak thou not in the ears of unwise men; for they shall despise the teaching of thy speech.

Proverbs 26:5

Answer thou a fool after his folly, lest he seem to himself to be wise.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man striveth with a fool, whether he be wroth, or laugh, he shall not find rest.

Isaiah 36:21

And they were still, and answered not to him a word. For why the king commanded to them, and said, Answer ye not to him.

Matthew 7:6

Do not ye give holy thing to hounds, neither cast ye your margarites before swine, lest peradventure they defoul them with their feet, and the hounds be turned, and tear you all to pieces.

1 Peter 3:9

not yielding evil for evil, neither cursing for cursing, but on the contrary blessing; for in this thing ye be called, that ye wield blessing by heritage.

Jude 1:9

When Michael, [the] archangel, disputed with the devil, and strove of Moses’ body, he was not hardy to bring in doom of blasphemy, but said, The Lord command to thee.