Proverbs 26:7

7Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless,
is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:9

9Like aa thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard
is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Habakkuk 2:6

Woe to the Chaldeans

6Shall not all these btake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

cWoe to him dwho heaps up what is not his own—
for ehow long?—
and floads himself with pledges!”

John 16:25

I Have Overcome the World

25“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. gThe hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16:29

29His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not husing figurative speech!
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