Proverbs 10:26

²⁶כַּחֹמֶץ לַשִּׁנַּיִם, וְכֶעָשָׁן לָעֵינָיִם; כֵּן הֶעָצֵל, לְשֹׁלְחָיו׃

Proverbs 10 marks a decisive shift in the book of Proverbs. The extended discourses of chapters 1–9 give way to a collection of individual, pithy sayings—the first of several Solomonic collections. Each verse is a self-contained unit, typically a two-line parallelism contrasting the