Proverbs 26:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ”

• Proverbs 26:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Seven - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Proverbs 24:16 ). Reason - Better, a right judgment.

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• Proverbs 26:16 - 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 opposit...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  men. No Hebrew for this word here.

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Than seven men that can render a reason - Seven here only means perfection, abundance, or multitude. He is wiser in...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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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• Proverbs 26:16 - 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 ac...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - 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 26:3-12 . In this group of proverbs the fool is the su...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - 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?...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 gettin...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 wer...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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, Prov...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - L. 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...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.       Observe, 1. The high opinion which the sluggard has of himself, notwithstanding the gross absur...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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,...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:15 . In his bosom . Rather, In the dish , as in chap. Proverbs 19:24 . MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 26:12-16 SELF-CONCEIT AND INDOLENCE I. Th...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - 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 w...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22 ). Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summe...

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• Proverbs 26:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concerning Fools and Sluggards

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:15 ; Proverbs 12:15 ; Proverbs 26:12

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• Proverbs 26:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A reason — A satisfactory reason of ail their actions.

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