“ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. ”
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...
the fool's back . the back of fools.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. A whip for the horse - Correction is as suitable to a fool, as a whip is for a horse, or a bridle for an ass.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass. So the Vulgate: but the Chaldaic, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic transla...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
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...
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...
A whip for the horse ,.... One that is dull of going, or refractory and wants breaking; a bridle for the ass ; not to curb and restrain it from going too fist, asses being generally dull; but to d...
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. Ver. 3. A whip for the horse, ] viz., To quicken his slow pace. "A bridle for the ass," wherewith to lead him in the righ...
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...
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. Here, 1. Wicked men are compared to the horse and the ass, so brutish are they, so unreasonable, so u...
A bridle was very proper and usual for an ass, when they rode upon it, (as the Jews most commonly did,) though not to restrain him from running away, which is the principal use of it in horses, yet...
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 spirite...
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...
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 reaso...
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...
Concerning Fools and Sluggards
1 Corinthians 4:21 ; 2 Corinthians 10:6 ; 2 Corinthians 13:2 ; Judges 8:5-7 ; Proverbs 10:13 ; Proverbs 17:10 ; Proverbs 19:25 ; Proverbs 27:22 ; Psalms 32:9