Proverbs 26:7 Cross References - Leeser

⁷ Too feebly hang down the thighs on a lame man: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

¹⁶ But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth? ¹⁷ And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. ¹⁸ When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion. ¹⁹ Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. ²⁰ Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother’s son thou utterest slander. ²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”

^{8 (64:9)} And their own tongues will stumble over themselves: all that look on them will shake their head.

⁷ High-toned language is not seemly to a worthless fool: and yet much less the language of falsehood to a noble.

⁹ As a thorn that is come into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.