Proverbs 26:7

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Proverbs 26:7

Proverbs 26:7

A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like lame legs that hang limp.

Proverbs 26:9

A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like a stick with thorns,
brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

Psalm 50:16-21

But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?

Psalm 64:8

They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.

Proverbs 17:7

Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;
how much worse are lies for a ruler.

Matthew 7:4-5

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye?

Luke 4:23

Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.’”

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Summary

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

So

Bible References

So

A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like a stick with thorns,
brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;
how much worse are lies for a ruler.

But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?

They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye?

Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.’”

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