7The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? …
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)To recommend wisdom to us, and to quicken us to the diligent use of all the means for the getting of wisdom, Solomon here shows that fools are fit for nothing; they are either sottish men, who will never think and design at all, or vicious men, who will never think and design well. 1. They are not fit to be entrusted with any business, not fit to go on an errand (Prov. 26:6): He that does but send…
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