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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 26:10

The proverb seems to be directed against employing fools and strangers, but it is impossible to be sure how the Hebrew words at the beginning of the v. originally ran.

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See also Proverbs 26:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 26:10. _THE GREAT_ GOD _THAT FORMED ALL_ THINGS] See the _margin_, where this verse is very differently translated. I shall add that of _Coverdale_: "A man of experience discerneth all...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The word “God” is not in the original, and the adjective translated “great” is never used elsewhere absolutely in that sense. The simplest and best interpretation is: As the archer that woundeth every...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE GREAT GOD, &C. Render: "A master [workman] formeth all himself aright: but he that hireth. fool, hireth. transgressor [who will spoil the work]. " REWARDETH. Hebrew. _sakar,_ to hire....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The number and variety of interpretations which have been given to this verse justify the remark of R.V. marg. that "The Hebrew is obscure." The rendering of R.V. text is: As _an archer_(comp. Job 16...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS— There is a great diversity of opinion respecting this verse. Mr. Peters says, that _formed all_ is the same as forming the universe, and parallel to Isaiah 44:24....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. THE GREAT (GOD), THAT FORMED ALL (THINGS), BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS - giving th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:10 passers-by. (g-14) Or 'as an archer that woundeth all, so is he that hireth,' &c....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The man who shoots arrows everywhere is clearly dangerous. But the employer might not seem to be dangerous. In fact, this employer is also dangerous. He would even employ a fool. The fool is an evil m...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL, AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS. — If this rendering of the passage could stand, Matthew 6:2 might be quoted in illustration of it. If fools a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רַ֥ב מְחֹֽולֵֽל ־כֹּ֑ל וְ שֹׂכֵ֥ר כְּ֝סִ֗יל ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (f) The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. (f) Meaning God....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Anger, and prevent lawsuits. Hebrew is variously read and translated. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "the great God, that formed all things, both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth the transgressors." Margi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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?...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE GREAT [GOD], THAT FORMED ALL [THINGS],.... That made the heavens, earth, and sea, and all that are in them; who is great in the perfections of his nature, and in the works of his hands, and greatl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. Ver. 10. _The great God that formed all things._] As he made all so he maintains all, even the evil and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The great God formed all things_, &c. The Hebrew text of this verse will admit of different translations, as the reader may see by the margin, and commentators are much divided in their opinions of i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth transgressors, rather, literally, "Much produceth all, and both the reward and the rewarder of the fool pass away," that is,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL, AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS: Or, a great man grieveth all, and he hireth the fool, he hireth also transgressors...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    God, who is oft called GREAT, as PSALMS 86:10, PSALMS 135:5, &c., and is described by the name of THE MOST HIGH, as Psalms 9:2, Psalms 21:

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 26:10 great H7227 formed H2342 (H8789) Gives H7936 fool H3684 hire H7936 (H8802) transgressor H5674 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Proverbs 11:31; Romans 2:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rewardeth — Will certainly give that recompence which is deserved by fools and transgressors, by such as sin either thro' ignorance, or wilfully....

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