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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_26_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_26_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9b9f89 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_26_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Proverbs. +Chapter 26. +Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish. +As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause. +A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish. +Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him. +Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself. +He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage. +The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish. +Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord. +Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man. +Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink. +Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again. +Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him. +The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. +A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. +The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. +The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense. +He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by. +As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death, +So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport? +Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended. +Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started. +The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach. +Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. +With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him; +When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils: +Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people. +He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again. +A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling. |