箴言 26:7

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

箴言在愚昧人口中，就像瘸子的腿，虛懸無用。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
瘸 子 的 脚 空 存 无 用 ； 箴 言 在 愚 昧 人 的 口 中 也 是 如 此 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ Sending a message by a foolish person is like cutting off your feet or drinking poison. ⁷ A wise saying spoken by a fool is as useless as the legs of a crippled person. ⁸ Giving honor to a foolish person is like tying a stone in a slingshot. ⁹ A wise saying spoken by a fool is like a thorn stuck in the hand of a drunk.

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

Genesis 12:13
Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."

Genesis 20:2
he told people that his wife Sarah was his sister. Abimelech king of Gerar heard this, so he sent some servants to take her.

Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘He is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong."

Genesis 24:16
She was very pretty, a virgin; she had never had sexual relations with a man. She went down to the spring and filled her jar, then came back up.

Genesis 26:12
Isaac planted seed in that land, and that year he gathered a great harvest. The Lord blessed him very much,

Genesis 26:13
and he became rich. He gathered more wealth until he became a very rich man.

Proverbs 29:25
Being afraid of people can get you into trouble, but if you trust the Lord , you will be safe.

Matthew 10:28
Don't be afraid of people, who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. The only one you should fear is the one who can destroy the soul and the body in hell.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it

Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to each other. You have left your old sinful life and the things you did before.

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.”