Amsal 26:16

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Si pemalas menganggap dirinya lebih bijak dari pada tujuh orang yang menjawab dengan bijaksana.

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Si pemalas menganggap dirinya lebih bijak dari pada tujuh orang yang menjawab dengan bijaksana.

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

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.