“As snow in summer and rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool’s back. Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence. Like the legs of the lame that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of fools. Like one who binds a stone in a sling is he who gives honor to a fool. Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools. The great God who formed everything gives the fool his hire and the transgressor his wages. As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly” (Proverbs 26:1, 3-11).
Truth # 6: A fool is clueless in the realm of wisdom (vv. 7, 9).
For a person who is lame, his legs are useless when there is a need to move from one location to another. What a frustrating fact. How often a lame person may feel mocked by his legs—Here they are but of no use to him.
Giving a fool wise counsel, especially when he can recite it without heeding it—is frustrating. It is a mockery of wisdom and was a waste of an instructor’s time.
Like a person so drunk his nervous system is dulled to the pain of a thorn piercing his skin, a fool can be so intoxicated by folly that he can state a proverb without gleaning any wisdom from it. How incredible!
A fool is clueless in the realm of wisdom.
2 Pet 2:20-21
Seems applicable to the fool.