the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 26:10
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Like an archer who wounds everyone,So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
Like an archer who wounds everyone, So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
The mightie that fourmed al thinges, rewardeth the fooles & transgressours.
A master roughly worketh every one: he both hireth the fool and hireth passers-by.
The great God who formed everythingGives the fool his hire and the transgressor his wages. [fn]
Great is the Former of all things, but he who hires a fool is like one who hires those passing by.
Hiring a fool or a stranger who is just passing by is dangerous—you don't know who might get hurt.
As an archer who wounds all, So is he who hires a fool Or he who hires those who pass by.
The great God that formed all things, both rewardeth the foole, and rewardeth transgressours.
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
A man of experience discerneth all thinges well, but whoso hyreth a foole, hyreth soch one as wyl take no hede.
Hire a fool or a drunk and you shoot yourself in the foot.
Like a [careless] archer who [shoots arrows wildly and] wounds everyone, So is he who hires a fool or those who [by chance just] pass by.
As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth a fool and he that hireth them that pass by.
Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.
[As] an archer that wounds all, So is he that hires a fool and he that hires those that pass by.
The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
It's no smarter to shoot arrows at every passerby than it is to hire a bunch of worthless nobodies.
A master can make anything, but hiring a fool is like hiring some passer-by.
The excellent that formed all things, both rewardeth the foole & rewardeth the transgressers.
The body of a fool is greatly afflicted, and a drunkard thinks that he can cross a sea.
As an archer who wounds all, So is he who hires a fool Or he who hires those who pass by.
A master performeth all things; but he that stoppeth a fool is as one that stoppeth a flood.
An employer who hires a fool or a bystander is like an archer who shoots at random.
He who hires a fool or hires those who pass by is like a man who uses a bow to hurt everyone.
As an archer that woundeth all, so is he that hireth the fool and he that hireth them that pass by.
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passer-by.
Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
As an archer who woundeth every thing, so one who hireth a dullard, and a drunkard crossing the sea.
Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.
Like an archer who wounds everyone, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby.
Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
Like an archer who wounds everyone, So is one who hires a fool or hires those who pass by.
Hiring a foolish person or anyone just passing by is like an archer shooting at just anything.
An employer who hires any fool that comes along is only hurting everybody concerned.
The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing by is like an archer who wounds everyone.
Doom determyneth causis; and he that settith silence to a fool, swagith iris.
Like an archer who wounds everybody is he who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
Great [is] the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The great: etc. or, A great man grieveth all; and he hireth the fool, he hireth also the transgressors.
both: Proverbs 11:31, Romans 2:6
Cross-References
So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."
Then Abimelech exclaimed, "What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
When Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The great [God], that formed all [things],.... That made the heavens, earth, and sea, and all that are in them; who is great in the perfections of his nature, and in the works of his hands, and greatly to be praised;
both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors; according to their works; every transgression of the law receiving its just recompence of reward, whether a man transgresses it ignorantly or wilfully; as his transgressions are, whether through error or presumption, so shall his punishment be; though some understand this, as Kimchi, of the Lord's doing good in a providential way, to the wise and unwise, the righteous and the wicked: the words are by some rendered to another sense, "a great one grieveth all, and he hireth the fool, and he hireth the transgressors" y; that is, a great man, a tyrannical prince, grieves all his good subjects; or, as Hottinger z, from the use of the word in the Arabic tongue, changes all things, inverts their order, or administers all at his will, that is, wrongly; when he hires fools and wicked men to do those bad things for him which others would not, to the great detriment of the commonwealth; and rewards them for it, putting them into posts of honour and trust, to the great grief and trouble of all his best subjects.
y So Mercerus, Piscator. z Smegm. Oriental. l. 1. c. 2. p. 171.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The word “God” is not in the original, and the adjective translated “great” is never used elsewhere absolutely in that sense. The simplest and best interpretation is: As the archer that woundeth everyone, so is he who hireth the fool, and he who hireth every passerby. Acting at random, entrusting matters of grave moment to men of bad repute, is as likely to do mischief as to shoot arrows at everyone.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 26:10. The great God that formed all things] See the margin, where this verse is very differently translated. I shall add that of Coverdale: "A man of experience discerneth all thinges well: but whoso hyreth a foole, hyreth soch one as wyl take no hede." The רב rab may mean either the great God, or a great man: hence the two renderings, in the text and in the margin.
