7. Like legs that hang limp from a lame person, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
8. Like binding a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool.
9. Like a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
10. Like an archer who wounds everyone, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby.
11. Like a dog returning to his vomit is a fool reverting to his folly.
12. Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
13. A lazy person says “A lion is in the road! A lion among the streets!”
14. The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed.
15. A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is too tired to return it to his mouth.
16. A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.
17. Grabbing onto the ears of a dog passing by is one who meddles in a quarrel that is not his own.
18. Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
19. so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says “Am I not joking?”
20. For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease.
21. As charcoal is to hot embers and wood is to fire, so a man of quarrels is to kindling strife.