Proverbs 26:2

by... by. for... for: or [has cause] for.

So the curse, &c. Illustrations: Baalam's (Nehemiah 13:2); Goliath's (1 Samuel 17:43); Shimei's (2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 16:12).

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 26:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

i. e., “Vague as the flight of the sparrow, aimless as the wheelings of the swallow, is the causeless curse. It will never reach its goal.” The mar...
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 a...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. As the bird - צפור tsippor is taken often for the sparrow;...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As the bird by wandering— "Curses which fly out of men's mouths causlessly shall no more alight where they would have them, than a sparrow which wa...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. As the bird (or the sparrow) by wandering (or, is...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is a contradiction of the idea that the deity invoked in a curse was bound to inflict it ( Genesis 27:33 ; Judges 17:2 ). The undeserved curse...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying. — Rather, As the bird (any small one, especially the sparrow) is made for wandering, and the...
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...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying ,.... As a bird, particularly the sparrow, as the word h is sometimes rendered, leaves its nest a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. Ver. 2. As the bird by wandering, and the swallow, ] i...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As the bird by wandering Namely, from place to place: that is, as by its restlessness it secures itself from the fowler, that he cannot shoot at it...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. Here is, 1. The folly of passion. It ma...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By wandering from place to place; by its perpetual restlessness it secures itself from the fowler, that he cannot shoot at it, nor spread his net o...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:2 . The first clause of the verse should be, As the sparrow flitting, as the swallow flying , etc. Causeless , i....
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 wh...
The Biblical Illustrator

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. Human anathemas Another, and perhaps a better, trans...
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 Prov...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concerning Fools and Sluggards
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

As the bird by wandering, the sparrow flitting along, as the swallow by flying, the aimlessness of their ordinary flight being the point of compari...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 14:28 ; 1 Samuel 14:29 ; 1 Samuel 17:43 ; 2 Samuel 16:12 ; Deuteronomy 23:4 ; Deuteronomy 23:5 ; Nehemiah 13:2 ; Numbers 23:8 ; Psa...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

By flying — Secures itself from the fowler. Not come — Upon the innocent person, but he shall escape from it like a bird.

² As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 26:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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