Proverbs 26:7

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
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

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A fool is no more qualified to use a proverb than a lame man his legs.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
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

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
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 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

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 4:23 ; Matthew 7:4 ; Matthew 7:5 ; Proverbs 17:7 ; Proverbs 26:9 ; Psalms 50:16-21 ; Psalms 64:8
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 26:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 26:7