4. Don't answer a foolish person in keeping with his foolish acts. If you do, you will be like him yourself.
5. Answer a foolish person in keeping with his foolish acts. If you do, he won't be wise in his own eyes.
6. Sending a message in the hand of a foolish person is like cutting off your feet or drinking something harmful.
7. A proverb in the mouth of a foolish person is like disabled legs that are useless.
8. Giving honor to a foolish person is like tying a stone in a slingshot.
9. A proverb in the mouth of a foolish person is like a thorn in the hand of someone who is drunk.
10. Anyone who hires a foolish person or someone who is passing by is like a person who shoots arrows at just anybody.
11. A foolish person who does the same foolish things again is like a dog that returns to where it has thrown up.
12. Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a foolish person than for him.
13. A person who doesn't want to work says, "There's a lion in the road! There's an angry lion wandering in the streets!"
14. A person who doesn't want to work turns over in bed just like a door that swings back and forth.
15. A person who doesn't want to work leaves his hand in the dish. He acts as if he is too tired to bring it back up to his mouth.
16. A person who doesn't want to work is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who give careful answers.
17. Don't get mixed up in someone else's fight as you are passing by. That's like picking a dog up by its ears.
18. Suppose a crazy person shoots flaming arrows that can kill.
19. A man who lies to his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!" is just like that person.