Musar sobre Provérbios 26:4

He who is accustomed to be silent, is saved from many transgressions : from flattery, from mockery, from gossip, from lies, and blasphemies. For when a man shames and reviles him, if he answers him, then the offender will double his reviling and his insults. And thus said the wise man, "I hear a bad word, but I am silent." And they said to him, "Why?" And he said to them, "If I respond or answer my revilers, I fear that I will hear other insults much worse than the first." And he said, "Where a fool takes issue with a wise man, and the wise man is silent, this in itself is a great answer to the fool." And he said, "A fool has greater anguish in the silence of the wise man, than if the wise man would respond to him." And on this it is said, "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him" (Prov. 26:4).