Proverbs 26:8

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

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

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Delights become not a fool; neither it becometh a servant to be lord of princes.

As snow in summer, and rain in harvest; so glory is unseemly to a fool.

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

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

by a servant, when he reigneth; by a fool, when he is filled with meat;