Proverbs 26:7

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

As an halting man hath fair legs in vain; so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.

Cross References

Psalm 64:8

and the tongues of them be made sick against them. All men be troubled, that saw them;

Proverbs 17:7

Words well-set together beseem not a fool; and a lying lip becometh not a prince.

Proverbs 26:6

An halting man in feet, and drinking wickedness, he that sendeth words by a fond [or foolish] messenger.

Proverbs 26:8

As he that sendeth a stone into the broad place of the sling; so he that giveth honour to an unwise man.

Proverbs 26:9

As if a thorn groweth in the hand of a drunken man; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Luke 4:23

And he said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. The Pharisees said to Jesus, How great things have we heard done in Capernaum, do thou also here in thy country.