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Proverbs 26:6
6If you send a message with a fool, there will be trouble. It would be better to cut off your own feet!
Proverbs 26:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
- New International Version (NIV)Sending a message by the hands of a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He who sends a message by the hand of a fool Cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
Context of Proverbs 26:6
4If someone asks you a silly question, do not give him a silly answer. Be careful that you do not become as silly as he is. 5If someone asks you a silly question, give him a silly answer. Then he will know that he is not as wise as he thinks he is. If you send a message with a fool, there will be trouble. It would be better to cut off your own feet! 7A lame person cannot use his legs properly. A fool cannot use a proverb properly. 8If you tie a stone into a sling, it will be a useless weapon. It is also useless to give honour to a fool.
Read all of Proverbs 26Proverbs 26:6 word by word
מְקַצֶּ֣ה רַ֭גְלַיִם חָמָ֣ס שֹׁתֶ֑ה שֹׁלֵ֖חַ דְּבָרִ֣ים בְּיַד־כְּסִֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 26:6
- Proverbs 10:26Do not send a lazy person with a message. He will bring you pain, like the taste of bitter wine, or like smoke in your eyes.
- Proverbs 13:17If you send a message with a wicked person, he will cause trouble. But if you send someone that you can trust, he will bring peace.
- Proverbs 25:13When a faithful servant takes a message for his master, his master will have peace in his mind. It will keep him cool, like snow in the middle of summer.
- Numbers 13:31But the men who had gone into Canaan with him said, ‘These people are stronger than we are. So we cannot go and fight against them.’
Commentaries on Proverbs 26:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Cutteth off the feet - Sending by such a person is utterly useless. My old MS. Bible translates well: Halt in feet and drinking wickednesse that sendith wordis bi a foole messager. Nothing but lameness in himself can vindicate his sending it by such hands; and, after all, the expedient will be worse than the total omission, for he is likely to drink wickedness, i.e., the mischief occasioned by the fool's misconduct. Coverdale nearly hits the sense as…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Cutteth off the feet - Mutilates him, spoils the work which the messenger ought to fulfill. Drinketh damage - i. e., “has to drink full draughts of shame and loss” (compare Job 15:16).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
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. A fool fails by folly as surely as if he were maimed. drinketh damage--that is, gets it abundantly (Job 15:16; 34:7).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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