George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 26:12
Fool. The ignorant may be convinced that he wants instruction. (Calmet) --- But "none are worse than the half-learned." (Quintil. i. Jo. v. 21.)
Fool. The ignorant may be convinced that he wants instruction. (Calmet) --- But "none are worse than the half-learned." (Quintil. i. Jo. v. 21.)
CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which signifies weakness....
THE BOOK OF FOOLS. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2). The text is unusually corrupt and defective. PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...
DISCOURSE: 810 THE DANGER OF CONCEIT Proverbs 26:12. _Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool, than of him_. THE Scripture seeks not to please the fastidious ear of man...
TEXT Proverbs 26:9-19 9. As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools. 10. As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth a fool and he that...
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. SEEST THOU A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT? (THERE IS) MORE HOPE OF A FOOL ( kªciyl (H3684 ): HERE A DULL MAN: NEGA...
FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
Solomon thinks that this man is even worse than a fool. (But perhaps Solomon uses humour here.) This man imagines that he is wise. But he is not wise. He thinks that his advice is good. But his advic...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....
SEEST THOU A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT. — Comp. the warnings of Romans 12:16, and Revelation 3:17. THERE IS MORE HOPE OF A FOOL THAN OF HIM. — So the “publicans and harlots,” who had foolishly stray...
רָאִ֗יתָ אִ֭ישׁ חָכָ֣ם בְּ עֵינָ֑יו תִּקְוָ֖ה...
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 a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...
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. In this group of proverbs the fool is the subject. The...
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] (g) more hope of a fool than of him. (g) For the fool would rather be counselled than he: also the fool sins out of ignorance, and the other out o...
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
SEEST THOU A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT,.... Or "in his own eyes" b; as multitudes may be seen, by looking round; man is a creature but of small knowledge in things natural, civil, mechanical, philos...
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him. Ver. 12. _Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?_] This foolish wise man, or wise foolish man (for whether of...
CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, in a false estimate of his knowledge and abilities? THERE IS MORE HOPE OF A FOOL THAN OF HIM, for a person with false self-assurance is a hopeless case....
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, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....
A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT; who, being a fool, thinks himself wise, and therefore scorneth the counsels of others. THERE IS MORE HOPE OF A FOOL; of doing good to one who is a fool, and sensible of...
Proverbs 26:12 see H7200 (H8804) man H376 wise H2450 eyes H5869 hope H8615 fool H3684 Seest -...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and hear mor...
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 incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...
_Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?_ there is more hope of a fool than of him THE FOLLY OF SELF-CONCEIT The Scriptures are full of denunciations against the self-sufficiency of man. The writi...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:12 Even more hopeless than the situation of the fool (vv. Proverbs 26:1) is the situation of the stubbornly unteachable person, who is wise in his
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 26:15. IN HIS BOSOM. Rather, IN THE DISH, as in chap. Proverbs 19:24. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 26:12_ SELF-CONCEIT AND INDOLENCE I.
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening. The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...
1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 3:19; 2 Corinthians 8:1; 2 Corinthians 8:2;...