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Proverbs 26:4
New English Translation

4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly,[a]
lest you yourself also be like him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:4 sn One should not answer a fool’s foolish questions in line with the fool’s mode of reasoning (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 274).
  2. Proverbs 26:4 sn The person who descends to the level of a fool to argue with him only looks like a fool as well.
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