THEOSISProverbs 26:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.
אַל־תַּ֣עַן כְּ֭סִיל כְּאִוַּלְתּ֑וֹ פֶּֽן־תִּשְׁוֶה־לּ֥וֹ גַם־אָֽתָּה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.
- 1 Pet 3:9Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
- Judg 12:1But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.
- Judg 12:6They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth, which is interpreted, An ear of corn. But he answered, Sibboleth, not being able to express an ear of corn by the same letter. Then presently they took him and killed him in the very passage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim, two and forty thousand.
- Prov 17:14The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.
- 2 Sam 19:41Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king, said to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him?
- 2 Sam 19:43And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.
- Isa 36:21And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: Answer him not.