Verse Proverbs 26:17. _HE THAT PASSETH BY_] This proverb stands true _ninety-nine_ times out of a _hundred_, where people meddle with _domestic broils_, or differences between _men_ and their _wives_....
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...
MEDDLETH. vexeth himself....
_meddleth_ Rather, VEXETH HIMSELF, R.V. See Proverbs 20:2, where the same word is rendered, _provoketh to anger_, A.V. and R.V. text, or _angereth himself against_, R.V. marg. Of course in this place...
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...
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. HE THAT PASSETH BY, (AND) MEDDLETH WITH [OR AS THE HITHPAEL OF `aabar (H5674 ) MEANS (C...
FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
RM 'A passing dog,' which does not know you. 18-28. The evil effects of much speaking. 18, 19. Sport to them is death to others....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....
A dog is angry if you grasp its ears. It will bite you. Some people are angry if someone interrupts their argument. Perhaps that person wants to help. Perhaps he supposes that he can help them to be...
MEDDLETH WITH STRIFE. — Rather, _that is excited with strife._ If quarrelling and taking revenge on our own account are forbidden (Romans 12:18), how much more is the mixing up of ourselves in the dis...
מַחֲזִ֥יק בְּ אָזְנֵי ־כָ֑לֶב עֹבֵ֥ר מִ֝תְעַבֵּ֗ר...
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...
_Anger. Hebrew, "passeth by, and meddleth with a quarrel not ot him" pertaining. (Haydock) --- Such expose themselves foolishly to danger. Great discretion is requisite to reconcile those at variance....
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...
HE THAT PASSETH BY, AND MEDDLETH WITH STRIFE [BELONGING] NOT TO HIM,.... One that going along the streets, and passing by the door, where two or more persons are quarrelling, and he thrusts himself in...
He that passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears. Ver. 17. _He that passeth by and meddleth, &c._] Two kind of studies have I always...
_He that passeth by_ Who is going on the way about his business; _and meddleth with strife_, &c. In which he is not concerned, nor any way obliged to meddle; _is like one that taketh a dog by the ears...
CONCERNING BUSYBODIES...
He that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, becoming excited over a dispute which is really none of his business, IS LIKE ONE THAT TAKETH A DOG BY THE EARS, deliberately provokin...
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....
MEDDLETH: Or, is enraged...
HE THAT PASSETH BY; who is going upon the way, and about his business. But this word is by some referred to the last clause, is like ONE THAT TAKETH A DOG BY THE EARS AS HE IS PASSING BY HIM, without...
Proverbs 26:17 by H5674 (H8802) meddles H5674 (H8693) quarrel H7379 takes H2388 (H8688) dog H3611 ears...
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...
_He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife._ MISCHIEVOUS CITIZENS I. The meddler (Proverbs 26:17). 1. His conduct defined. 2. His mischief indicated. Renders himself liable to the anger of one,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 26:17. MEDDLETH, rather, “_is excited_.” PROVERBS 26:21. COALS TO BURNING COALS—_i.e., “black coals to burning_,” etc. PROVERBS 26:22. A repetition of
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...
2 Timothy 2:23; 2 Timothy 2:24; Luke 12:14; Proverbs 17:11; Prov
He — Who is going upon the way. With strife — In which he is not concerned, nor any way obliged to meddle. That taketh — Exposes himself to needless hazard....