Eclesiastes 10
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Introdução
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(l) Dead flies. — Literally, flies of death, which, according to a common Hebrew idiom, “weapons of death” (Salmos 7:14); “snares of death” (Salmos 18:5) ought to mean death-giving or poisonous flies; but the existing translation yields so satisfactory a sense that we are unwilling to disturb it. (Comp. 1 Coríntios 5:6.) There is a close connection with the last words of the preceding chapter, which might better have been brought to a close at the end of Eclesiastes 10:12.)
Apothecary. — Êxodo 30:35.
Him that is in reputation for. — Substitute “is weightier than.” The sense remains the same, viz., that a little folly undoes the effect of much wisdom.