Proverbs 26:7

⁹Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

⁷Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

⁸Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

¹⁶But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, ¹⁷since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? ¹⁸When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. ¹⁹“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. ²⁰You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. ²¹You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

⁴Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? ⁵You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”