the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 26:7
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Like the legs which hang limp on the lame,So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like the legs which are useless to the lame, So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
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 proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like the legs of the lame that hang limp 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.
A fool trying to say something wise is like a crippled person trying to walk.
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: 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.
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable 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.
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 a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].
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.
[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.
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.
As they that lift vp the legs of the lame, so is a parable in a fooles mouth.
As a lame man who cannot walk, so is a parable in the mouth of a fool.
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable 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.
that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.
The legs of the lame hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
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 legs that hang limp from a lame person, so is a proverb 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.
A fool can use a proverb about as well as crippled people can use their legs.
A proverb in the mouth of a fool is like lame legs that hang limp.
As an haltinge man hath faire leggis in veyn; so a parable is vnsemeli in the mouth of foolis.
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.
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
So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."
Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.' I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!"
Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.
When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.
The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.
The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices
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.”