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 of themselves or others, than can a lame man use his legs. (Comp. Luke 8:10.)
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...
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....
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...
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...
_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....
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...
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...
A fool is no more qualified to use a proverb than a lame man his legs....
FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....
A fool might repeat a proverb (wise words). But a fool is stupid, so he does not understand the proverb. He says the right words, but he is still stupid. If he understood the words, the fool would sto...
דַּלְי֣וּ שֹׁ֖קַיִם מִ פִּסֵּ֑חַ וּ֝ מָשָׁ֗ל...
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...
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...
_Fair. Hebrew, "unequal legs," or "lifted up," so, &c. (Haydock)_...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
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....
ARE NOT EQUAL: _ Heb._ are lifted up...
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...
Proverbs 26:7 legs H7785 lame H6455 limp H1809 (H8804) proverb H4912 mouth H6310 fools H3684 not equal - Heb. lifted up so -...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
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...
Luke 4:23; Matthew 7:4; Matthew 7:5; Proverbs 17:7; Proverbs 26:9;...
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...