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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS
1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
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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...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 26
V1 Snow should not fall in summer.
Rain should not fall during the harvest....
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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...
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רָאִ֗יתָ אִ֭ישׁ חָכָ֣ם בְּ עֵינָ֑יו
תִּקְוָ֖ה...
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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...
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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...
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_Fool. The ignorant may be convinced that he wants instruction.
(Calmet) --- But "none are worse than the half-learned." (Quintil. i.
Jo. v. 21.)_...
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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?...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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Proverbs 26:12 see H7200 (H8804) man H376 wise H2450 eyes H5869 hope
H8615 fool H3684
Seest -...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 26:1
Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception,
perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
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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...
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1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 3:19; 2 Corinthians 8:1; 2
Corinthians 8:2;...