the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Proverbs 26:16
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The sluggard is wiser in his own eyesThan seven men who can respond with a discreet answer.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can give a discreet answer.
The sluggarde thinketh him selfe wiser then seuen men that sit and teache.
A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven [men] that answer discreetly.
The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can answer sensibly.
The lazy one is wiser in his own eyes than seven that return a wise answer.
Lazy people think they are seven times smarter than the people who really have good sense.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
The sluggard is wiser in his owne conceit, then seuen men that can render a reason.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
The slogarde thinketh him self wyser, then vij. men that sytt and teach.
Dreamers fantasize their self-importance; they think they are smarter than a whole college faculty.
The lazy person is wiser in his own eyes Than seven [sensible] men who can give a discreet answer.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.
The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.
The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.
A lazy person says, "I am smarter than everyone else."
A lazy man is wiser in his own view than seven who can answer with sense.
The sluggard is wiser in his owne conceite, then seuen men that can render a reason.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men with good reasoning.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that give wise answer.
The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give a wise answer.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem than seven who can answer discreetly.
Wiser is the sluggard in his own eyes, than, seven persons, who can answer with judgment.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.
A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.
A lazy one is wiser in his own eyes Than seven people who can give a discreet answer.
The lazy person thinks he is wiser than seven people who give sensible answers.
A lazy person will think he is smarter than seven men who can give good reasons for their opinions.
In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.
A slow man semeth wysere to hym silf, than seuene men spekynge sentensis.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer discreetly.
Wiser [is] the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven [men] returning a reason.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 26:12, Proverbs 12:15, 1 Peter 3:15
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 5:20 - my master Proverbs 21:25 - General Proverbs 28:11 - his own conceit Isaiah 5:21 - wise Romans 11:25 - lest
Cross-References
He said to his people, "Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit,.... It is a sort of a solecism, a kind of a contradiction in terms for a sluggard to be wise, who is so slothful as to make no use of the means of getting wisdom and knowledge. And it must be a mere conceit in him that he is wise, and especially that he is wiser
than seven men that can render a reason; not alluding to the number of a king's counsellors, who return him an answer to what he inquires of them, as Aben Ezra thinks; such as were the "seven" princes of the king of Persia, Esther 1:14. Since to have such an exact number might not obtain in Solomon's time, either in Persia, or in his own court, or elsewhere: but it signifies a large number, many wise men, as Gersom observes, that render a reason to everyone that asks it of them; who, having been diligent and industrious, have got such a competency of knowledge, that they are able to give a proper reason of what they say, believe, or do: and such are they, who, by the blessing of grace in the use of means, are wise in a spiritual sense; know themselves, and Christ Jesus, and the way of salvation by him; have an understanding of the Scriptures, and of the doctrines of the Gospel; have their spiritual senses exercised, to discern between truth and error; are of established judgments, and capable of teaching others good judgment and knowledge; and of giving a reason of their faith, hope, and practice; see 1 Peter 3:15. Now such is the conceit of an ignorant sluggard, that he is wiser than ten thousand or ever so many of these; he thinks himself the wisest man, inasmuch as he enjoys ease and quiet in his stupid sottish way, while they are toiling and labouring, and taking a great deal of pains to get knowledge; and that he sleeps in a whole skin, and escapes the censure and reproaches of men, which they endure for being precise in religious duties, and constant in the performance of them; and fancies he can get to heaven in an easier way, without all this care and toil and trouble, only by saying, Lord, have mercy on me, at last.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Seven - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Proverbs 24:16).
Reason - Better, a right judgment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 26:16. Than seven men that can render a reason. — Seven here only means perfection, abundance, or multitude. He is wiser in his own eyes than a multitude of the wisest men. "Than seven men that sytt and teach." - Coverdale; i.e., than seven doctors of the law, or heads of the schools of the prophets, who always sat while they taught.
