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Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, a sharp and decisive answer being framed to meet foolish remarks, lest he be wise in his own conceit, filled with the notion that he really possesses wisdom.
Answer a fool according to his folly, a sharp and decisive answer being framed to meet foolish remarks, lest he be wise in his own conceit, filled with the notion that he really possesses wisdom.
Two sides of a truth. To “answer a fool according to his folly” is in Proverbs 26:4 to bandy words with him, to descend to his level of coarse anger and vile abuse; in Proverbs 26:5 it is to say the r...
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...
CONCEIT. eyes....
_according to_ Let not your answer be according to his folly in foolishness; but let it be according to it in appositeness....
ANSWER NOT A FOOL, &C.— They who choose to review antiquity, in its antique garb, will observe, that had the folly of these fools been only of one condition or denomination, then the advice to _answer...
CHAPTER 26 TEXT Proverbs 26:1-9 1. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool. 2. As a sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that...
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. ANSWER A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY, LEST HE BE WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT. The former verse forbids to answer a fool foolish...
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....
The fool is an evil man who hates your wise words. Solomon uses humour here, because verse 4 is the opposite of verse 5. But both verses are correct. Verse 4 The fool hates wisdom. So his words are f...
ANSWER A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY. — As his folly deserves, sharply and decisively, and in language suited to his comprehension....
עֲנֵ֣ה כְ֭סִיל כְּ אִוַּלְתֹּ֑ו פֶּן ־יִהְיֶ֖ה...
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...
Answer a fool (b) according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. (b) Reprove him as the matter requires....
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...
ANSWER A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY,.... The Targum is, "but speak with a fool in thy wisdom;'' and the Syriac version, "yea, speak with a fool according to thy wisdom;'' which would at once remo...
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Ver. 5. _Answer a fool according to his folly._] Cast in somewhat that may sting him, and stop his mouth. Stone him with soft...
_Answer not a fool_, &c. _Answer a fool_, &c. These contrary directions are easily reconciled, by considering the difference of persons, times, places, and other circumstances, and of the manner of an...
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....
HIS OWN CONCEIT: _ Heb._ his own eyes...
ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY; so as his folly needs and requires, convincing him strongly, reproving him sharply, exposing him to just shame, and correcting him with a rod, when he deserves it, and thou has...
Proverbs 26:5 Answer H6030 (H8798) fool H3684 folly H200 wise H2450 eyes H5869 a fool -...
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...
_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 which man pays his fellow is often grounded on reasons...
_Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him _ ANSWERING A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY The ambiguity in these verses lies in the connecting words “according to,” which...
_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...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:4 At first these verses seem to contradict each other. But the fact that they are grouped together shows they do not. Rather, they cover two situations. The reader must de...
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...
1 Kings 22:24; Isaiah 5:21; Jeremiah 36:17; Jeremiah 36:18; John 8:7
According — So as his folly needs and requires, convincing him strongly, reproving him sharply, and exposing him to just shame....
How can contradictory commands both be true? PROBLEM: Verse 4 says “Do not answer a fool according to his folly;” and verse 5 tells us to “Answer a fool according to his folly.” But this looks like a...