Proverbs 26:7 Cross References - LEB

⁷ Like legs that hang limp from a lame person, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to recite my statutes and _⌊mention my covenant with your mouth_⌋,* ¹⁷ while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you? ¹⁸ When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association is with adulterers. ¹⁹ You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit. ²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son. ²¹ These things you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes.

⁸ * And they who would cause him* to stumble, their own tongue will be against them. All who gaze on them will shake.*

⁷ _⌊Fine speech_⌋* is not becoming a fool, _⌊still less_⌋* is _⌊false speech_⌋* for a ruler.

⁹ Like a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, 'Allow me to remove the speck from your eye,' and behold, the beam of wood is in your own eye? ⁵ Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye!

²³ And he said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable: 'Physician, heal yourself!' Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!"