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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 26:7
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A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like lame legs that hang limp.
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like useless legs to one who cannot walk, So is a proverb in the mouths of fools.
A wise saying spoken by a fool is as useless as the legs of a crippled person.
Like the legs which are useless to the lame, So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
As they that lift vp the legs of the lame, so is a parable in a fooles mouth.
Like the legs which hang limp on the lame,So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
A fool with words of wisdom is like an athlete with legs that can't move.
The legs of the disabled hang limp and useless; likewise a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
The legs of the lame hang loose; so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
A fool trying to say something wise is like a crippled person trying to walk.
As a lame man who cannot walk, so is a parable in the mouth of a fool.
A fool can use a proverb about as well as crippled people can use their legs.
Like legs that hang limp from a lame person, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
As the legs of the lame are weak, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like as it is an vnsemely thige to haue legges & yet to halte, eue so is a parable in ye fooles mouth.
The legs of the lame hang loose; So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.
The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The legges of the lame are not equall: so is a parable in the mouth of fooles.
Like as in a lame man his legges are not equall: euen so is a parable in a fooles mouth.
The legs of the lame hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
As an haltinge man hath faire leggis in veyn; so a parable is vnsemeli in the mouth of foolis.
[As] the legs hang loose from a cripple: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.
Like legs that hang limp from the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like the legs of the lame that hang limp Is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
A proverb in the mouth of a fool is as useless as a paralyzed leg.
A wise saying in the mouth of fools is like the legs on a man who cannot walk.
The legs of a disabled person hang limp; so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Useless are the legs of the lame, and a proverb, in the mouth of a dullard.
As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.
Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Weak have been the two legs of the lame, And a parable in the mouth of fools.
A proverb quoted by fools is limp as a wet noodle.
Like the legs which are useless to the lame, So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not equal: Heb. lifted up
so: Proverbs 26:9, Proverbs 17:7, Psalms 50:16-21, Psalms 64:8, Matthew 7:4, Matthew 7:5, Luke 4:23
Reciprocal: Job 27:1 - Job
Cross-References
Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of thee, and my soul shall live because of thee.
And Abraam said concerning Sarrha his wife, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the city should kill him for her sake. So Abimelech king of Gerara sent and took Sarrha.
Said he not to me, She is my sister, and said she not to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands have I done this.
And the virgin was very beautiful in appearance, she was a virgin, a man had not known her; and she went down to the well, and filled her water-pot, and came up.
And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found in that year barley and hundred-fold, and the Lord blessed him.
And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great.
Take care of the herbage in the field, and thou shalt cut grass, and gather the mountain hay;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The legs of the lame are not equal,.... Or as "the lifting up the legs by one that is lame" m, to dance to a pipe or violin, is very unseemly, and does but the more expose his infirmity, and can give no pleasure to others, but causes derision and contempt;
so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools; an apophthegm, or sententious expression of his own, which he delivers out as a wise saying, but is lame and halts; it is not consistent with itself, but like the legs of a lame man, one higher than the other: or one of the proverbs of this book, or rather any passage of Scripture, in the mouth of a wicked man; or any religious discourse of his is very unsuitable, since his life and conversation do not agree with it; it is as disagreeable to hear such a man talk of religious affairs as it is to see a lame man dance; or whose legs imitate buckets at a well, where one goes up and another down, as Gussetius n interprets the word.
m דליו שוקים מפסה "elevatio crurum a claudo facta", Gejerus, Michaelis. n "Femora claudi imitantur situlas", Gussetius, p. 188. "situlas agunt crura ex claudio", Schultens; "instar binarum sitularum in puteo alternatium adscendentium ac descendentium", Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Or, 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.”
