Holy Scripture
Proverbs 26:4
A church father on this verse
“I had treated you with contempt, Demetrian, as you railed with sacrilegious mouth against God, who is one and true, and frequently cried out with impious words, thinking it more fitting and better to ignore with silence the ignorance of a man in error than to provoke with speech the fury of a man in madness. And I did…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou become like him.
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2As birds and sparrows fly, So a curse shall not come upon anyone without a cause.
3As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, So is a rod for a simple nation.
— Proverbs 26:4 —
5Yet answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he seem wise in his own conceit.
6He that sends a message by a foolish messenger Procures for himself a reproach from his own ways.