OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 26:4

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Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

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Verse 4. Answer not a fool, and so forth that is so as to imitate him; but only so as to reprove his folly. Challoner.—If thou answer at all, (verse 5) do it to the purpose, and to prevent others from taking scandal, ( Calmet.) as well as to humble the wicked, for his good. Bible.

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