...one may have been 26.4-5: 'Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.' It is said that the contradictions were duly resolved, and a suggestion that the book should be £«£...

...3:7; 29:20 Prov 22:13 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. 6 He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence. 7 Like a...

...with proverbs. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him (Prov. 26:4). Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit (Prov. 26:5). Perhaps these are really separate proverbs, but they do recommend opposite courses...

...clearer if one reads a full stop between 'rule' and 'One.' 1812-13 Solomon ... matters Proverbs 26:5 'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' 1823-5 Yt ... wofulle Cf Ecclesiastes 8:6: 'because to every purpose there is time and judgment,...

...Strokes. PROV. xviii. 7. Answer not a Fool according to his Folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a Fool according to his Folly, lest he be wise in his own Conceit. PROV. xxvi. 4, 5. Ne Sutor ultra Crepidam, LONDON: Printed and Sold by M. LEWIS, in Paternoster-Row,...

...daily newspaper of the time. 2 "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like unto him." "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." Proverbs 26: 4-5. PS. I don't agree with you that there was no persecution of POUM militiamen....

...rod for the fool's back. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage....

...reads, "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like unto him. The next verse reads, "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." One verse tells you not to answer a fool. The other verse tells you to answer a fool. Obviously...

...Wilmot's which has been circulated this morning,1" would require no reply, but I am induced to answer him, "according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes." - He does not hesitate to say, "That Tacitus is some base coward who has not the impudence, &c." Tacitus...

...dialogue, acknowledges his error, and burns the Register in the fire. The column is signed "Prov. 26:5" ("Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit").124 Another anti-Parker piece, which apparently grew directly out of the events at the Church...