Proverbs 26:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ Never let a fool carry your message. If you do, it will be like cutting off your own feet. You are asking for trouble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet [of satisfactory delivery] and drinks the damage. [Prov. 13:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.

Common English Bible

⁶ Sending messages with a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking down violence.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Whoever sends words by a foolish messenger has lame feet and drinks iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.

Proverbs 26:6 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:26

Never let a lazy man do something for you. He will irritate you—like vinegar in your mouth or smoke in your eyes.

Proverbs 13:17

If a messenger cannot be trusted, then there will be trouble around him. But if a person can be trusted, then there will be peace.

Proverbs 25:13

A messenger that can be trusted is worth much to the people who send him. He is like cool water during the hot days of harvest.

Proverbs 26:5

But if a fool asks a stupid question, then you should give him a stupid answer or he will think he is very smart.

Proverbs 26:7

When a fool tries to say something wise, it is like a crippled person trying to walk.

Numbers 13:31

But the men that had gone with him said, “We can’t fight those people! They are much stronger than we are.”