Proverbs 26:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁶The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem
than seven who can answer discreetly.
¹⁷Like somebody who takes a passing dog by the ears
is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.
¹⁸Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows,

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