“ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. ”
Two sides of a truth. To “answer a fool according to his folly” is in Proverbs 26:4 to bandy words with him, to descend to his level of coarse anger and vile abuse; in Proverbs 26:5 it is to sa...
Answer not a fool (a) according to his folly, lest thou also be like him. (a) Consent not to him in his doings.
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...
Answer not. The point of Proverbs 26:3 is that you cannot reason with. fool; Proverbs 26:4 gives the reason. If you answer not according to his folly, he will think he is wise like yourself. If...
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer not a fool - On this and the following verse Bishop Warburton, who has written well on many things, and very indiffer...
Answer not a fool, &c.— They who choose to review antiquity, in its antique garb, will observe, that had the folly of these fools been only of one condition or denomination, then the advice to...
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him - by answering taunt with taunt, angry sne...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Answer not a fool. — Comp. Proverbs 1:22 . According to his folly. — Do not lower yourself by disputing or arguing with him; he will not take in your meaning, and will think he has got the bett...
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...
Answer not a fool according to his folly ,.... Sometimes a fool, or wicked man, is not to be answered at all; as the ministers of Hezekiah answered not a word to Rabshakeh; nor Jeremiah the prophet...
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Ver. 4. Answer not a fool according to his folly. ] When either he curseth thee, as Pro 26:2 or cryeth out upon thee f...
Answer not a fool , &c. Answer a fool , &c. These contrary directions are easily reconciled, by considering the difference of persons, times, places, and other circumstances, and of the man...
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...
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. See here the noble security...
How can these contrary rules be reconciled, answer him not , and answer him ? Answ . Easily, by considering the difference of persons, and times, and places, and other circumstances, and of the...
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 Kings 12:14 ; 1 Kings 12:16 ; 1 Peter 2:21-23 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; 2 Kings 14:8-10 ; 2 Samuel 19:41-43 ; Judges 12:1-6 ; Jude 1:9 ; Proverbs 17:14
According — So as to imitate his folly, by passionate or reproachful speeches.