George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 26:16
Seven, or many wise men, who used to speak in a sententious manner. (Calmet) --- So seven is used, ver. 25.
Seven, or many wise men, who used to speak in a sententious manner. (Calmet) --- So seven is used, ver. 25.
Verse Proverbs 26:16. _THAN SEVEN MEN THAT CAN RENDER A REASON._] _Seven_ here only means _perfection, abundance_, or _multitude_. He is wiser in his own eyes than a _multitude_ of the wisest men. "T...
SEVEN - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Proverbs 24:16). REASON - Better, a right judgment....
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...
MEN. No Hebrew for this word here....
_sluggard_ The A.V. after rendering the Heb. word (which is the same in all four verses), _slothful_, three times, here changes it to _sluggard_. It is better to keep one word throughout. _render a r...
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...
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. THE SLUGGARD IS WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT THAN SEVEN MEN (I:E., THAN THE TOTALITY OF MEN: SEVEN REPRESENTING A COMPL...
FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....
This lazy man is like the man in verse 12. Both men think that they are wise. But the lazy man thinks that he is the wisest of all men. The lazy man thinks this because he refuses to work. But he is n...
SEVEN MEN. — A round number. (Comp. Proverbs 26:25; Proverbs 6:31; Proverbs 24:16.) THAT CAN RENDER A REASON — _i.e._, give a sensible judgment on any matter submitted to them....
חָכָ֣ם עָצֵ֣ל בְּ עֵינָ֑יו מִ֝ שִּׁבְעָ֗ה מְש
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...
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...
THE SLUGGARD [IS] WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT,.... It is a sort of a solecism, a kind of a contradiction in terms for a sluggard to be wise, who is so slothful as to make no use of the means of getting w...
The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Ver. 16. _Than seven men that can render a reason._] Yea, though they were the seven wise men of Greece, they were...
_The slothful man saith_, &c. “In this and the following verses, three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loath to stir out of doors about his business in the field, Proverbs 2...
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, in his own estimate of himself, THAN SEVEN MEN THAT CAN RENDER A REASON, giving wise answers, proper information concerning questions placed before them. True...
CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
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....
IS WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT, because by his idleness he avoids those troubles and dangers to which other men by their activity expose themselves, forgetting in the mean thee what reproach and loss, an...
Proverbs 26:16 lazy H6102 wiser H2450 eyes H5869 men H7651 answer H7725 (H8688) sensibly H2940...
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...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:13 These proverbs focus on the SLUGGARD. He looks ridiculous in his laziness (vv. Proverbs 26:13) even while considering himse
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 Peter 3:15; Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 26:12...
A reason — A satisfactory reason of ail their actions....