Luke 4:23; Matthew 7:4; Matthew 7:5; Proverbs 17:7; Proverbs 26:9; Psalms 50:16-21; Psalms 64:8
Or, Take away the legs of the lame man, and the parable that is in the mouth of fools: both are alike useless to their possessors. Other meanings a...
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...
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 cl...
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. The legs of the lame are not equal, [ dalyuw ( H1809 ), from...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
A fool is no more qualified to use a proverb than a lame man his legs.
The legs of the lame are not equal. — Better, perhaps. The legs hang down from a lame man, and so is a parable ( useless ) in the mouth of 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 legs of the lame are not equal ,.... Or as "the lifting up the legs by one that is lame" m, to dance to a pipe or violin, is very unseemly, and...
The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools. Ver. 7. The legs of the lame are not equal. ] Locum habet proverbium...
The legs of the lame are not equal Hebrew, דליו, are lifted up , namely, in going, which is done with great inequality and uncomeliness; so is a...
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,...
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. 7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is...
The legs of the lame are not equal, Heb. As (which note of similitude is plainly understood from the particle so in the following clause) the legs...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 legs of the lame are not equal, they drag or dangle, they render him helpless in his walk; so is a parable in the mouth of fools, it is altoget...
The legs — Heb. the legs of the lame are lifted up, in going, or in dancing, which is done with great inequality and uncomeliness. So — No less inc...
7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.