Context. It's all about Context

In Proverbs 26:4 we read:

Don't answer a fool according to his foolishness,
or you'll be like him yourself.

but in the very next verse we read:

Answer a fool according to his foolishness,
or he'll become wise in his own eyes.

So are we supposed to answer a fool according to his foolishness, or not?

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Joel 3:10 says:

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.

But Micah 4:3 says:

They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Which is it? Plowshares into swords, or swords into plowshares?

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In Mark 9:40, Jesus says:

....whoever is not against us is for us.

But in Luke 11:23 He says:

...He who is not with me is against me....

Is Jesus inclusive or exclusive?

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The point being, just because the black-and-white of the text says something explicitly doesn't mean that's what the text is explicitly saying. Context matters.