“ The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. ”
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...
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...
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. fo...
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: 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...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
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 guidanc...
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...
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 gi...
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 i...
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...
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...
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. 7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 8 As he that...
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...
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
Luke 4:23 ; Matthew 7:4 ; Matthew 7:5 ; Proverbs 17:7 ; Proverbs 26:9 ; Psalms 50:16-21 ; Psalms 64:8
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 a...