Proverbs 26:4

1 Kings 12:14; 1 Kings 12:16; 1 Peter 2:21-23; 1 Peter 3:9; 2 Kings 14:8-10; 2 Samuel 19:41-43; Judges 12:1-6; Jude 1:9; Proverbs 17:14

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Two sides of a truth. To “answer a fool according to his folly” is in Proverbs 26:4 to bandy words with him, to descend to his level of coarse an...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Answer not a fool (a) according to his folly, lest thou also be like him. (a) Consent not to him in his doings.
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Answer not. The point of Proverbs 26:3 is that you cannot reason with. fool; Proverbs 26:4 gives the reason. If you answer not according to his...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer not a fool - On this and the following verse Bishop Warburton, who...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Answer not a fool, &c.— They who choose to review antiquity, in its antique garb, will observe, that had the folly of these fools been only of...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like u...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Answer not a fool. — Comp. Proverbs 1:22 . According to his folly. — Do not lower yourself by disputing or arguing with him; he will not take i...
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

Answer not a fool according to his folly ,.... Sometimes a fool, or wicked man, is not to be answered at all; as the ministers of Hezekiah answered...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Ver. 4. Answer not a fool according to his folly. ] When either he curs...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Answer not a fool , &c. Answer a fool , &c. These contrary directions are easily reconciled, by considering the difference of persons, time...
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

4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

How can these contrary rules be reconciled, answer him not , and answer him ? Answ . Easily, by considering the difference of persons, and time...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:3 . To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembe...
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

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back. Aspects of a fool Sin is folly. It sacrifices the spiritual for the...
The Biblical Illustrator

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him Answering a fool according to his folly The ambiguity in these verse...
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

Answer not a fool according to his folly, by putting oneself on a level with him in speech and actions, lest thou also be like unto him, be placed...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

According — So as to imitate his folly, by passionate or reproachful speeches.

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 26:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 26:4