James 3:6; Proverbs 16:28; Proverbs 22:10; Proverbs 26:22
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...
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out - The...
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. Where no wood is, (there) the fire goeth out...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
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...
Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out ,.... Or "woods" h; where there is a large quantity of wood or fuel, the fire is kept up; but where the...
Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. Ver. 20. Where no wood is, there the fire goe...
Where no wood is, the fire goeth out: &c. As the fire will soon be extinguished if you take away the fuel that feeds it; so, where there is no...
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,...
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 21 As coals are to burning coal...
Tale-bearer, to carry such reports from one to another as may provoke them to mutual rage and strife.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:17 . Meddleth , rather, “ is excited .” Proverbs 26:21 . Coals to burning coals — i.e., “black coals to burning ,...
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...
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife. Mischievous citizens I. The meddler ( Proverbs 26:17 ). 1. His conduct defined. 2. His misc...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Prov...
Concerning Busybodies
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out, for want of fuel; so where there is no talebearer, whose slanderous remarks always add further fuel for...
20 Where noi wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.