Proverbs 26:7
King James Version (KJV)
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
World English Bible (WEB)
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs 26:7 Cross References
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.