Pearls Before Swine

• Dogs

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

• Way

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.

So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.