Verse List for PROV 26:4

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OET (OET-RV) Don’t answer a fool with a foolish answer, ⇔ otherwise you’ll just end up like them.

OET-LV Do _not answer a _fool according_to _of_his _foolishness lest you _should _become _like for_him/it also you.

ULT Do not answer a stupid one according to his folly, ⇔ lest you yourself also become like him.

UST Do not reply to foolish people according to their foolish way of thinking. ⇔  If you do, then you also will be foolish.

BSB & MSB Do not answer a fool according to his folly, ⇔  or you yourself will be like him.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

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

NET Do not answer a fool according to his folly, ⇔ lest you yourself also be like him.

LSV Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest you are like to him—even you.

FBV Don't answer stupid people following their stupidity, or you'll become as bad as them.

T4T ⇔  If a foolish person asks a foolish question, do not answer him, ⇔  because if you answer his question, you are just as foolish as he is.

LEB • Do not answer a fool according to his folly
• lest you become like him—even you.

BBE Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

Moff Never answer a fool according to his folly, ⇔  lest you become like him:

JPS Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

ASV Answer not a fool according to his folly, ⇔ Lest thou also be like unto him.

DRA Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.

YLT Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him — even thou.

Drby Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

RV Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
(Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou/you also be like unto him.)

SLT Thou shalt not answer the foolish according to his folly lest thou shalt be like to him.

Wbstr Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him.

KJB-1769 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
(Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou/you also be like unto him.)

KJB-1611 Answere not a foole according to his folly, lest thou also be like vnto him.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Geue not the foole an aunswere after his foolishnes, lest thou become like vnto him.
(Give not the fool an answer after his foolishnes, lest thou/you become like unto him.)

Gnva Answer not a foole according to his foolishnes, least thou also be like him.
(Answer not a fool according to his foolishnes, least thou/you also be like him.)

Cvdl Geue not the foole an answere after his foolishnesse, lest thou become like vnto him:
(Give not the fool an answer after his foolishness, lest thou/you become like unto him:)

Wycl Answere thou not to a fool bi his foli, lest thou be maad lijk hym.
(Answer thou/you not to a fool by his folly, lest thou/you be made like him.)

Luth Antworte dem Narren nicht mich seiner Narrheit, daß du ihm nicht auch gleich werdest.
(Answer(v) to_him fool(n) not me his folly, that you(sg) him not also even become.)

ClVg Ne respondeas stulto juxta stultitiam suam, ne efficiaris ei similis.[fn]
(Don’t respondeas stupid next_to stupidity his_own, not I_will_becomeis to_him similar.)

UHB אַל־תַּ֣עַן כְּ֭סִיל כְּ⁠אִוַּלְתּ֑⁠וֹ פֶּֽן־תִּשְׁוֶה־לּ֥⁠וֹ גַם־אָֽתָּה׃ ‡

BrLXX Μὴ ἀποκρίνου ἄφρονι πρὸς τὴν ἐκείνου ἀφροσύνην, ἵνα μὴ ὅμοιος γένῃ αὐτῷ.

BrTr Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou become like him.