1 Peter 3:15; Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 26:12
Seven - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Proverbs 24:16 ). Reason - Better, a right judgment.
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...
men. No Hebrew for this word here.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Than seven men that can render a reason - Seven here only means p...
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men (i:...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Seven men. — A round number. (Comp. Proverbs 26:25 ; Proverbs 6:31 ; Proverbs 24:16 .) That can render a reason — i.e. , give a sensible jud...
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...
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...
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to hi...
The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit ,.... It is a sort of a solecism, a kind of a contradiction in terms for a sluggard to be wise, who is so...
The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Ver. 16. Than seven men that can render a reason. ] Yea, thoug...
The slothful man saith , &c. “In this and the following verses, three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loath to stir o...
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,...
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Observe, 1. The high opinion which the slugga...
Is wiser in his own conceit, because by his idleness he avoids those troubles and dangers to which other men by their activity expose themselves, f...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:15 . In his bosom . Rather, In the dish , as in chap. Proverbs 19:24 . MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Prove...
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...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Prov...
Concerning Fools and Sluggards
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, in his own estimate of himself, than seven men that can render a reason, giving wise answers, proper info...
A reason — A satisfactory reason of ail their actions.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.