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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 26:12
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Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a person wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for a foolish person than for those who think they are wise.
Do you see a man [who is unteachable and] wise in his own eyes and full of self-conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceite? more hope is of a foole then of him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for a fool than for someone who says, "I'm really smart!"
Do you see someone who thinks himself wise? There is more hope for a fool than for him!
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
People who think they are wise when they are not are worse than fools.
If you should see a man wise in his own eyes, a fool is much better than he.
The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceit? There is more hope of a foole then of him.
If thou seest a man that is wise in his owne conceipt: there is more hope in a foole, then in hym.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Thou hast seyn a man seme wijs to hym silf; an vnkunnyng man schal haue hope more than he.
Do you see a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for fools than for people who think they are wise.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eye, - more hope of a dullard, than of him!
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Seest: Proverbs 22:29, Proverbs 29:20, Matthew 21:31, Luke 7:44
a man: Proverbs 26:5, Proverbs 26:16, Proverbs 28:11, Proverbs 29:20, Matthew 21:31, Luke 18:11, Romans 12:16, 1 Corinthians 3:18, 1 Corinthians 3:19, 2 Corinthians 8:1, 2 Corinthians 8:2, Revelation 3:17
Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:7 - Be Proverbs 12:15 - way Proverbs 14:6 - scorner Proverbs 23:4 - cease Proverbs 30:32 - thou hast done Isaiah 5:21 - wise Ezekiel 28:5 - thy great wisdom Matthew 6:23 - If Luke 11:35 - General John 9:34 - and dost John 9:41 - If John 11:49 - Ye Acts 17:18 - babbler Romans 1:22 - General Romans 2:19 - art confident Romans 11:25 - lest Romans 12:3 - not to 1 Corinthians 8:2 - if 2 Corinthians 10:12 - are not wise Galatians 6:3 - if 1 Timothy 6:4 - He
Cross-References
Abraham was now an old man. God had blessed Abraham in every way.
The men of the place questioned him about his wife. He said, "She's my sister." He was afraid to say "She's my wife." He was thinking, "These men might kill me to get Rebekah, she's so beautiful."
One day, after they had been there quite a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah. Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So, she's your wife. Why did you tell us ‘She's my sister'?" Isaac said, "Because I thought I might get killed by someone who wanted her."
Abimelech said, "But think of what you might have done to us! Given a little more time, one of the men might have slept with your wife; you would have been responsible for bringing guilt down on us."
Then Abimelech gave orders to his people: "Anyone who so much as lays a hand on this man or his wife dies."
God blessed Job's later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes. There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.
Go to work in the morning and stick to it until evening without watching the clock. You never know from moment to moment how your work will turn out in the end.
A Harvest Story At about that same time Jesus left the house and sat on the beach. In no time at all a crowd gathered along the shoreline, forcing him to get into a boat. Using the boat as a pulpit, he addressed his congregation, telling stories. "What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn't put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.
"The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit,.... Or "in his own eyes" b; as multitudes may be seen, by looking round; man is a creature but of small knowledge in things natural, civil, mechanical, philosophical, moral, or divine; yet greatly conceited for the most part of his knowledge and wisdom. As by a "fool" in this book is generally understood a wicked profane man, so by a wise man is meant a good and righteous man, and may be so understood here; and many there are who are good and righteous only their own conceit and esteem, not truly so; they place their righteousness in outward things, in the observance of external duties; and though there may be some little imperfection in them, yet they think, as they mean well, God will accept the will for the deed: and some have imagined they have arrived to perfection; and such are generally conceited, proud, and haughty, and despise others; all which flows from ignorance; for, though they fancy themselves to be wise, they are very ignorant of themselves; of the plague of their own hearts; of the law of God, and the spirituality of it, and the extensiveness of its demands; of the strict justice and righteousness of God, which will not admit of an imperfect righteousness in the room of a perfect one; and also of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, the nature and necessity of that to justify: and this being their case, they are in very dangerous circumstances; they are building on a sand; they are liable to fall into a ditch; they cannot be justified nor saved by their own works; they oppose themselves to God's way of justifying and saving sinners; and he sets himself against them, he resisteth the proud. Wherefore
[there is] more hope of a fool than of him; of a profane sinner than of a self-righteous person; for Christ came to save sinners, to call them to repentance, and he receives them as such; but not self-righteous persons; and, humanly speaking, there is a greater likelihood and greater hopes of convincing sinners, and bringing them to repentance and to forsake their sins, than there is of convincing a self-righteous man of the insufficiency of his righteousness, and the folly of trusting to it, and of bringing him to repent of such a confidence, and to forsake it; for it is most natural to him; it is his own, and the effect of great labour and pains; and encourages vanity and boasting, which would be excluded should he part with it; see Matthew 21:31.
b בעיניו "in oculis suis", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, &c.
