Proverbs 26:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.

⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.