Proverbs 26:7

Proverbs 26:7 in other translations

What does Proverbs 26:7 mean?

Proverbs 26:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 26:7

• Proverbs 26:9

  As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

• Proverbs 17:7

  Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

• Psalms 64:8

  So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

• Psalms 50:16-21

  But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. …

• Matthew 7:4-5

  Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

• Luke 4:23

  And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

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Context

• Proverbs 26:6

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

• Proverbs 26:7

  The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

• Proverbs 26:8

  As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

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