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Or, Take away the legs of the lame man, and the parable that is in the
mouth of fools: both are alike useless to their possessors. Other
meanings are:
(1) “The legs of the lame man are feeble, so is...
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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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LEGS. clothes; "legs" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject),
App-6, for the clothes on them.
ARE NOT EQUAL. are lifted up: i.e. the clothes being lifted up expose
the lame legs. So. fool ex...
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_are not equal_ Rather, HANG LOOSE, R.V. The strongest members of the
body and the weightiest aphorisms of wisdom are alike useless
appendages to one who lacks the power to turn them to account....
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CHAPTER 26
TEXT Proverbs 26:1-9
1.
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,
So honor is not seemly for a fool.
2.
As a sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying,
So the curse that...
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The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of
fools.
THE LEGS OF THE LAME ARE NOT EQUAL, [ dalyuw (H1809 ), FROM daalah
(H1802 )] - LITERALLY, RISE UP, OR are elevated: one le...
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FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS
1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
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A fool is no more qualified to use a proverb than a lame man his legs....
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THE LEGS OF THE LAME ARE NOT EQUAL. — Better, perhaps. _The legs
hang down from a lame man, and so is a parable_ (_useless_)_ in the
mouth of fools;_ they can make no more use of it for the guidance o...
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דַּלְי֣וּ שֹׁ֖קַיִם מִ פִּסֵּ֑חַ וּ֝
מָשָׁ֗ל...
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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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_Fair. Hebrew, "unequal legs," or "lifted up," so, &c. (Haydock)_...
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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 LEGS OF THE LAME ARE NOT EQUAL,.... Or as "the lifting up the legs
by one that is lame" m, to dance to a pipe or violin, is very
unseemly, and does but the more expose his infirmity, and can give...
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The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of
fools.
Ver. 7. _The legs of the lame are not equal._] _Locum habet
proverbium cum is qui male vivit, bene loquitur,_ saith an
int...
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_The legs of the lame are not equal_ Hebrew, דליו, _are lifted
up_, namely, in going, which is done with great inequality and
uncomeliness; _so is a parable in the mouth of fools_ No less absurd
and i...
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The legs of the lame are not equal, they drag or dangle, they render
him helpless in his walk; SO IS A PARABLE IN THE MOUTH OF FOOLS, it is
altogether awkward for him to use a proverb or maxim, as he...
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CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
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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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ARE NOT EQUAL:
_ Heb._ are lifted up...
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THE LEGS OF THE LAME ARE NOT EQUAL, Heb. As (which note of similitude
is plainly understood from the particle so in the following clause)
_the legs of the lame are lifted up_, to wit, in going, or rat...
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Proverbs 26:7 legs H7785 lame H6455 limp H1809 (H8804) proverb H4912
mouth H6310 fools H3684
not equal - Heb. lifted up
so -...
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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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_A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
fool’s back._
ASPECTS OF A FOOL
Sin is folly. It sacrifices the spiritual for the material, the
temporal for the eternal, the pure joys...
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_As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly
for a fool _
HONOUR PAID TO THE WICKED UNSEEMLY AND PERNICIOUS
The respect which man pays his fellow is often grounded on reasons...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 26:3. To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned
respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembered that the
Eastern ass is often quite as spirited an...
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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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Luke 4:23; Matthew 7:4; Matthew 7:5; Proverbs 17:7; Proverbs 26:9;...
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The legs — Heb. the legs of the lame are lifted up, in going, or in
dancing, which is done with great inequality and uncomeliness. So —
No less incident are wise and pious speeches from a foolish and...