American Standard Version of 1901
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Answer not a fool according to his folly,Lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly,Lest he be wise in {Hebrew: his own eyes.}his own conceit.
But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.
I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind {Or, those preeminent apostles}the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go up and prosper; and Jehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king.
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Jehovah said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.