English to Spanish Art/Literary Religion Commentary on Proverbs (19th century)

Proverbs 26:7: "The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools."
A lame man is very awkward in his manner of walking. But a fool appears with a still worse grace when he presumes to talk of subjects beyond his reach, or to speak in praise of those virtues to which he is a total stranger in his practice. A clown would be laughed at if he were to talk about Greek and Hebrew, and navigation, and ***court breeding***; but it would fill a person with indignation to hear a thief speak in praise of justice, a drunkard commend temperance, or a hypocrite talk in praise of the uprightness of David.