Proverbs 26:2
What meaning of the proverbs 26:2 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 26:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come."
What does Proverbs 26:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come."
Verse Proverbs 26:2. _AS THE BIRD_] צפור _tsippor_ is taken often for the _sparrow_; but means generally any small bird. As the _sparrow_ flies about the house, and the _swallow_ emigrates to strange...
i. e., “Vague as the flight of the sparrow, aimless as the wheelings of the swallow, is the causeless curse. It will never reach its goal.” The marginal reading in the Hebrew, however, gives” to him”...
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...
BY... BY. for... for: or [has cause] for. SO THE CURSE, &C. Illustrations: Baalam's (Nehemiah 13:2); Goliath's (1 Samuel 17:43); Shimei's (2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 16:12)....
_bird_ Rather, SPARROW. The mention of a particular bird, the swallow, in the next clause makes it probable that a particular bird is intended here also. _come_ Rather, LIGHT. The whole proverb gain...
AS THE BIRD BY WANDERING— "Curses which fly out of men's mouths causlessly shall no more alight where they would have them, than a sparrow which wanders uncertainly, or a _dove_ which flies away swift...
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...
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. AS THE BIRD (OR THE SPARROW) BY WANDERING (OR, IS PRONE TO WANDERING), AS THE SWALLOW BY FLYING (OR, IS PR...
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. And a fool should not receive honour. V2 A bird does not stop...
AS THE BIRD BY WANDERING, AS THE SWALLOW BY FLYING. — Rather, _As the bird_ (any small one, especially the sparrow) _is made for wandering, and the swallow for flying_ (where it pleases), _so the curs...
כַּ † צִּפֹּ֣ור לָ֭ נוּד כַּ † דְּרֹ֣ור לָ ע֑וּף כֵּ֥ן קִֽלְלַ֥ת חִ֝נָּ֗ם _לֹ֣ו_† תָבֹֽא׃...
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. Th...
_As a bird, &c. The meaning is, that a curse uttered without cause shall do no harm to the person that is cursed, but will return upon him that curseth; as whithersoever a bird flies, it returns to it...
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 follow...
AS THE BIRD BY WANDERING, AS THE SWALLOW BY FLYING,.... As a bird, particularly the sparrow, as the word h is sometimes rendered, leaves its nest and wanders from it; and flies here and there, and set...
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. Ver. 2. _As the bird by wandering, and the swallow,_] _i.e., _ As these may fly where they will, and nobody...
_As the bird by wandering_ Namely, from place to place: that is, as by its restlessness it secures itself from the fowler, that he cannot shoot at it, or spread his net over it; _so the curse causeles...
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....
BY WANDERING from place to place; by its perpetual restlessness it secures itself from the fowler, that he cannot shoot at it, nor spread his net over it. SHALL NOT COME, to wit, upon the innocent per...
Proverbs 26:2 flitting H5110 (H8800) sparrow H6833 flying H5774 (H8800) swallow H1866 curse H7045 cause H2600 alight H935 (H8799) so - Numbers 23:8; Deuteronomy 23:4-5; 1 Samuel 14:28-29,...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 26:2. The first clause of the verse should be, AS THE SPARROW FLITTING, AS THE SWALLOW FLYING, etc. CAUSELESS, _i.e._, “_undeserved_”—_i.e._, Such a curse is but transient—i...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22). PROVERBS 26:1 AS SNOW IN SUMMER, AND AS RAIN IN HARV...
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 Samuel 14:28; 1 Samuel 14:29; 1 Samuel 17:43; 2 Samuel 16:12; Deuteronomy 23:4; Deuteronomy 23:5; Nehemiah 13:2; Numbers 23:8; Psalms 109:28...
By flying — Secures itself from the fowler. Not come — Upon the innocent person, but he shall escape from it like a bird....