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Verse Proverbs 26:16. _THAN SEVEN MEN THAT CAN RENDER A REASON._]
_Seven_ here only means _perfection, abundance_, or _multitude_. He is
wiser in his own eyes than a _multitude_ of the wisest men. "T...
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SEVEN - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Proverbs
24:16).
REASON - Better, a right judgment....
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CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD
Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different
words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which
signifies weakness....
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THE BOOK OF FOOLS. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets
dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2). The text is unusually
corrupt and defective.
PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...
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MEN. No Hebrew for this word here....
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_sluggard_ The A.V. after rendering the Heb. word (which is the same
in all four verses), _slothful_, three times, here changes it to
_sluggard_. It is better to keep one word throughout.
_render a r...
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TEXT Proverbs 26:9-19
9.
As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
10.
As an archer that woundeth all,
So is he that hireth a fool and he that...
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The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.
THE SLUGGARD IS WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT THAN SEVEN MEN (I:E., THAN
THE TOTALITY OF MEN: SEVEN REPRESENTING A COMPL...
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FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS
1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 26
V1 Snow should not fall in summer.
Rain should not fall during the harvest....
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This lazy man is like the man in verse 12. Both men think that they
are wise. But the lazy man thinks that he is the wisest of all men.
The lazy man thinks this because he refuses to work. But he is n...
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SEVEN MEN. — A round number. (Comp. Proverbs 26:25; Proverbs 6:31;
Proverbs 24:16.)
THAT CAN RENDER A REASON — _i.e._, give a sensible judgment on any
matter submitted to them....
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חָכָ֣ם עָצֵ֣ל בְּ עֵינָ֑יו מִ֝
שִּׁבְעָ֗ה מְש
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CHAPTER 27
THE FOOL
"As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for
a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...
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Verse Proverbs 26:2. Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is
unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm.
Verses Proverbs 26:3. In this group of proverbs the fool is the
subject. The...
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_Seven, or many wise men, who used to speak in a sententious manner.
(Calmet) --- So seven is used, ver. 25._...
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The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and
rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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THE SLUGGARD [IS] WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT,.... It is a sort of a
solecism, a kind of a contradiction in terms for a sluggard to be
wise, who is so slothful as to make no use of the means of getting
w...
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The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.
Ver. 16. _Than seven men that can render a reason._] Yea, though they
were the seven wise men of Greece, they were...
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_The slothful man saith_, &c. “In this and the following verses,
three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loath
to stir out of doors about his business in the field, Proverbs 2...
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THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the
work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to
the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....
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IS WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT, because by his idleness he avoids those
troubles and dangers to which other men by their activity expose
themselves, forgetting in the mean thee what reproach and loss, an...
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Proverbs 26:16 lazy H6102 wiser H2450 eyes H5869 men H7651 answer
H7725 (H8688) sensibly H2940...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two
ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and
hear mor...
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Proverbs 26:1. _As snow in summer,_ which beats down the fruits; _and
as rain in harvest,_ which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is
honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:13 These proverbs focus on the
SLUGGARD. He looks ridiculous in his laziness (vv. Proverbs 26:13)
even while considering himse
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 26:15. IN HIS BOSOM. Rather, IN THE DISH, as in chap.
Proverbs 19:24.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 26:12_
SELF-CONCEIT AND INDOLENCE
I.
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 26:1
Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception,
perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
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Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening.
The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to
any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...
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1 Peter 3:15; Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 26:12...
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A reason — A satisfactory reason of ail their actions....