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Selected Verse: Proverbs 26:5 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 26:5 |
Strong Concordance |
Answer [06030] a fool [03684] according to his folly [0200], lest he be wise [02450] in his own conceit [05869]. |
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King James |
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. |
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] |
Answer--by reproof. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
5 Answer the fool according to his folly,
Lest he regard himself as wise.
ענה־כסיל (with Makkeph, and Gaja, and Chatef)
(Note: Thus after Ben Asher; while, on the contrary, Ben Naphtali writes ענה כסיל with Munach, vid., Thorath Emeth, p. 41.)
here stands opposed to אל־תען כסיל. The Gospel of John, e.g., Joh 5:31, cf. Pro 8:31,
(Note: Vid., my dissertation on three little-observed passages in the Gospel of John, and their practical lessons, in the Evang. luth. Kirchenzeitung, 1869, Nos. 37, 38.)
is rich in such apparently contradictory sayings. The sic et non here lying before us is easily explained; after, or according to his folly, is this second time equivalent to, as is due to his folly: decidedly and firmly rejecting it, making short work with it (returning a sharp answer), and promptly replying in a way fitted, if possible, to make him ashamed. Thus one helps him, perhaps, to self-knowledge; while, in the contrary case, one gives assistance to his self-importance. The Talmud, Schabbath 30b, solves the contradiction by referring Pro 26:4 to worldly things, and Pro 26:5 to religious things; and it is true that, especially in the latter case, the answer is itself a duty toward the fool, and towards the truth. Otherwise the Midrash: one ought not to answer when one knows the fool as such, and to answer when he does not so know him; for in the first instance the wise man would dishonour himself by the answer, in the latter case he would give to him who asks the importance appertaining to a superior. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
According - So as his folly needs and requires, convincing him strongly, reproving him sharply, and exposing him to just shame. |
5 Answer [06030] a fool [03684] according to his folly [0200], lest he be wise [02450] in his own conceit [05869].
4 Answer [06030] not a fool [03684] according to his folly [0200], lest thou also be like [07737] unto him.
31 Rejoicing [07832] in the habitable part [08398] of his earth [0776]; and my delights [08191] were with the sons [01121] of men [0120].
31 If [1437] I [1473] bear witness [3140] of [4012] myself [1683], my [3450] witness [3141] is [2076] not [3756] true [227].