Proverbs 26:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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. fool exposes his folly in expounding. parable.

Proverbs 26:7

7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.