Berean Standard Bible
Proverbs 26:7
7Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Proverbs 26:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- New International Version (NIV)Like the useless legs of one who is lame is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Like the legs of the lame that hang limp Is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Context of Proverbs 26:7
5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes. 6Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool. Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. 8Like binding a stone into a sling is the giving of honor to a fool. 9Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Read all of Proverbs 26Proverbs 26:7 word by word
דַּלְי֣וּ שֹׁ֭קַיִם מִפִּסֵּ֑חַ וּ֝מָשָׁ֗ל בְּפִ֣י כְסִילִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 26:7
- Proverbs 26:9Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
- Proverbs 17:7Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
- Psalms 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
- Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
- Matthew 7:4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
- Luke 4:23Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”
Commentaries on Proverbs 26:7
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Or, Take away the legs of the lame man, and the parable that is in the mouth of fools: both are alike useless to their possessors. Other meanings are: (1) “The legs of the lame man are feeble, so is parable in the mouth of fools.” (2) “the lifting up of the legs of a lame man, i. e., his attempts at dancing, are as the parable in the mouth of fools.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-9Verses 6-9 Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honour. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7A fool might know a proverb but not use it correctly. Compare with Proverbs 26:9.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. legs ... equal--or, "take away the legs," or "the legs ... are weak." In any case the idea is that they are the occasion of an awkwardness, such as the fool shows in using a parable or proverb (see Introduction; Pr 17:7).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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