Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honour. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.
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Proverbs 26:6-9
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:6-9
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-28EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-12Certain proverbs concerning the fool (kesil), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22).Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:4-12Discussion of folly and its treatment I. How we ANSWER THE FOOL. (Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:5.) 1. Not according to his folly; i.e. so chiming in with his nonsense that yon become as he is. Do not descend into the aren…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Conduct of FoolsTo recommend wisdom to us, and to quicken us to the diligent use of all the means for the getting of wisdom, Solomon here shows that fools are fit for nothing; they are either sottish men, who will never think and desig…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:6He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool. This clause comes in the Hebrew after the next. Cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. To entrust an important commission to a fool is to deprive one's self of the me…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:7The legs of a lame man are not equal. The first word of this verse, דַּלְיוּ, has occasioned some difficulty. It is considered as an imperative from דלה, "draw off," "take away." Thus the Septuagint, ἀφελοῦ; Venetian,…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:8As he that bindeth a stone in a sling. So Septuagint, ὅς ἀποδεσμέυει λίθον ἐν σφενδόνῃ. This gives a very good sense the point being either that the stone, after being firmly fitted in its place, quickly passes…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:9As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard. There is here no idea of the drunkard's hand being pierced with a thorn while he is insensible to the pain, but rather of his being armed with it, and ripe for mischief.…Joseph S. Exell and contributors