The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth transgressors, rather, literally, "Much produceth all, and both the reward and the rewarder of the fool pass away," that is, diligence brings reward, but folly brings destruction.
Verse Proverbs 26:10. _THE GREAT_ GOD _THAT FORMED ALL_ THINGS] See the _margin_, where this verse is very differently translated. I shall add that of _Coverdale_: "A man of experience discerneth all...
The word “God” is not in the original, and the adjective translated “great” is never used elsewhere absolutely in that sense. The simplest and best interpretation is: As the archer that woundeth every...
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...
THE GREAT GOD, &C. Render: "A master [workman] formeth all himself aright: but he that hireth. fool, hireth. transgressor [who will spoil the work]. " REWARDETH. Hebrew. _sakar,_ to hire....
The number and variety of interpretations which have been given to this verse justify the remark of R.V. marg. that "The Hebrew is obscure." The rendering of R.V. text is: As _an archer_(comp. Job 16...
THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS— There is a great diversity of opinion respecting this verse. Mr. Peters says, that _formed all_ is the same as forming the universe, and parallel to Isaiah 44:24....
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 great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. THE GREAT (GOD), THAT FORMED ALL (THINGS), BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS - giving th...
26:10 passers-by. (g-14) Or 'as an archer that woundeth all, so is he that hireth,' &c....
FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
The proverb seems to be directed against employing fools and strangers, but it is impossible to be sure how the Hebrew words at the beginning of the v. originally ran....
The man who shoots arrows everywhere is clearly dangerous. But the employer might not seem to be dangerous. In fact, this employer is also dangerous. He would even employ a fool. The fool is an evil m...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....
THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL, AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS. — If this rendering of the passage could stand, Matthew 6:2 might be quoted in illustration of it. If fools a...
רַ֥ב מְחֹֽולֵֽל ־כֹּ֑ל וְ שֹׂכֵ֥ר כְּ֝סִ֗יל ו
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...
(f) The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. (f) Meaning God....
_Anger, and prevent lawsuits. Hebrew is variously read and translated. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "the great God, that formed all things, both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth the transgressors." Margi...
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 GREAT [GOD], THAT FORMED ALL [THINGS],.... That made the heavens, earth, and sea, and all that are in them; who is great in the perfections of his nature, and in the works of his hands, and greatl...
The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. Ver. 10. _The great God that formed all things._] As he made all so he maintains all, even the evil and...
_The great God formed all things_, &c. The Hebrew text of this verse will admit of different translations, as the reader may see by the margin, and commentators are much divided in their opinions of i...
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....
THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL, AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS: Or, a great man grieveth all, and he hireth the fool, he hireth also transgressors...
God, who is oft called GREAT, as PSALMS 86:10, PSALMS 135:5, &c., and is described by the name of THE MOST HIGH, as Psalms 9:2, Psalms 21:
Proverbs 26:10 great H7227 formed H2342 (H8789) Gives H7936 fool H3684 hire H7936 (H8802) transgressor H5674 ...
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...
_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 material, the temporal for the eternal, the pure joys...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 26:3. To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembered that the Eastern ass is often quite as spirited an...
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...
Proverbs 11:31; Romans 2:6...
Rewardeth — Will certainly give that recompence which is deserved by fools and transgressors, by such as sin either thro' ignorance, or wilfully....