Proverbs 26:7

Modern

Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Traditional

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Literal

Legs hanging limp from lameness is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Latin

Quomodo pulchras frustra habet claudus tibias, sic indecens est in ore stultorum parabola.

Hebrew

English

Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

A fool might know a proverb but not use it correctly. Compare with Proverbs 26:9.

Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Psalm 64:8
They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Proverbs 17:7
Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
Matthew 7:4–5
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
Psalm 50:16–21
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Luke 4:23
Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”