Proverbs 19:10; Proverbs 26:1; Proverbs 30:22
i. e., “To give honor to the fool is like binding a stone in a sling; you cannot throw it.” In each case you misapply and so waste. Others render i...
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...
bindeth . bindeth tight:. foolish thing to do.
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool. As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling— The plain meaning of this seems to be, what Bishop Patrick has given in his paraphrase; "As a stone put into...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool. As he that bindeth (hurleth, Maurer) a stone in a sling, so (is...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
This may be read, 'As he that bindeth,' etc. It should not be 'bound' there. Or, 'As a bag of gems,' etc. (RV). That is not the place for them.
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling ... — i.e., the stone is soon gone from the sling and seen no more, so honour and a fool soon part company....
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...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling ,.... That so fastens it to it that it cannot be slung out of it, it becomes useless and does not answer the e...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to a fool. Ver. 8. As he that bindeth a stone in a sling. ] A precious stone...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling Whereby he hinders his own design of throwing the stone out of it; so is he , &c. No less absurd is he t...
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...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling; whereby he hinders his own design of throwing the stone out of it; or, who fastens it there only for a seaso...
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...
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool. Throwing a stone at an idol The words should be translated, as Co...
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
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, as we might say, as one who plays with a loaded gun, so is he that giveth honor to a fool, for no fool is mo...
Bindeth — Whereby he hinders his own design of throwing the stone out of it. So — No less absurd is he that giveth to a fool that honour which he i...
8 As he that bindethc a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.