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Douay-Rheims
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As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.
King James
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The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Louis Second
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Comme les jambes du boiteux sont faibles, Ainsi est une sentence dans la bouche des insensés
Martin Luther
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Wie einem Krüppel das Tanzen, also stehet den Narren an, von Weisheit reden.
Vulgate
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quomodo pulchras frustra habet claudus tibias sic indecens est in ore stultorum parabola

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


quomodo : in what manner, how/ in whatever way, somehow.
frustra : in vain, mistakenly, wantonly, without reason.
claudus : lame.
sic : so, thus /yes, that is so, that is right.
in : (+ acc.) into, toward, against.
in : (+ abl.) in.