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Proverbs 26:7
Proverbs 26:7 is verse 7 of Proverbs chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
King James Version
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
World English Bible
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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Proverbs 26:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
6 Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
7 Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
8 Like binding a stone into a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.
9 Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 26:9Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Proverbs 17:7Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
Psalms 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Psalms 50:20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Psalms 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Matthew 7:4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
Matthew 7:5You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Luke 4:23Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”