Proverbs 26:7
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
6 Like 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.
8 Like binding a stone into a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.
9 Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
- KJV
- The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- WEB
- Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- ASV
- The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- DARBY
- The legs of the lame hang loose; so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
- BLB
- Legs hanging limp from lameness [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.
- ÅB
- Visne henger benene på den lamme og likeså ordspråk i munnen på dårer.
- OTB
- Som ubrukelige ben for en halt person er et ordspråk i dårers munn.
- B1930
- Visne henger benene på den lamme og likeså ordsprog i munnen på dårer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Read in contextProverbs 17:7
Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
Read in contextPsalms 64:8
They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Read in contextPsalms 50:16–21
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Read in contextMatthew 7:4–5
How 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?
Read in contextLuke 4:23
Jesus 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.’”
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