Proverbs 26:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:9 —

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They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. As vexatious and unmanageable as a thorn in a drunkard’s hand is a parable to a fool. He will be as apt to misuse is as to use it rightly.