Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit. — Comp. the warnings of Romans 12:16, and Revelation 3:17-18.
There is more hope of a fool than of him. — So the “publicans and harlots,” who had foolishly strayed from God, yet returned to Him at the preaching of the Saviour, while the Pharisees and lawyers “rejected the counsel of God against themselves” (Luke 7:30), thinking they had no need of it.