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Selected Verse: Proverbs 10:23 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 10:23 |
Strong Concordance |
It is as sport [07814] to a fool [03684] to do [06213] mischief [02154]: but a man [0376] of understanding [08394] hath wisdom [02451]. |
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King James |
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Sin is the pleasure of the wicked; wisdom that of the good. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
As the fool finds his sport in doing mischief, so the man of understanding finds in wisdom his truest refreshment and delight. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
23 Like sport to a fool is the commission of a crime;
And wisdom to a man of understanding.
Otherwise Lwenstein: to a fool the carrying out of a plan is as sport; to the man of understanding, on the contrary, as wisdom. זמּה, from זמם, to press together, mentally to think, as Job 17:11, and according to Gesenius, also Pro 21:27; Pro 24:9. But זמּה has the prevailing signification of an outrage against morality, a sin of unchastity; and especially the phrase עשׂה זמּה is in Jdg 20:6 and in Ezekiel not otherwise used, so that all the old interpreters render it here by patrare scelus; only the Targum has the equivocal עבד עבידתּא; the Syriac, however, 'bd bı̂_taa'. Sinful conduct appears to the fool, who places himself above the solemnity of the moral law, as sport; and wisdom, on the contrary, (appears as sport) to a man of understanding. We would not venture on this acceptation of כּשׂחוק if שׂחק were not attributed, Pro 8:30., to wisdom itself. This alternate relationship recommends itself by the indetermination of חכמהו, which is not favourable to the interpretation: sed sapientiam colit vir intelligens, or as Jerome has it: sapientia autem est viro prudentia. The subjects of the antithesis chiastically combine within the verse: חכמה, in contrast to wicked conduct, is acting in accordance with moral principles. This to the man of understanding is as easy as sporting, just as to the fool is shameless sinning; for he follows in this an inner impulse, it brings to him joy, it is the element in which he feels himself satisfied. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
It is a sport to a fool to do mischief - What a millstone weight of iniquity hangs about the necks of most of the jesters. facetious and witty people! "How many lies do they tell in jest, to go to the devil in earnest!" |
30 Then I was by him [0681], as one brought up [0525] with him: and I was daily [03117] [03117] his delight [08191], rejoicing [07832] always [06256] before [06440] him;
6 And I took [0270] my concubine [06370], and cut her in pieces [05408], and sent [07971] her throughout all the country [07704] of the inheritance [05159] of Israel [03478]: for they have committed [06213] lewdness [02154] and folly [05039] in Israel [03478].
9 The thought [02154] of foolishness [0200] is sin [02403]: and the scorner [03887] is an abomination [08441] to men [0120].
27 The sacrifice [02077] of the wicked [07563] is abomination [08441]: how much more, when he bringeth [0935] it with a wicked mind [02154]?
11 My days [03117] are past [05674], my purposes [02154] are broken off [05423], even the thoughts [04180] of my heart [03824].