the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Proverbs 26:12
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Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a person wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for a foolish person than for those who think they are wise.
Do you see a man [who is unteachable and] wise in his own eyes and full of self-conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceite? more hope is of a foole then of him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for a fool than for someone who says, "I'm really smart!"
Do you see someone who thinks himself wise? There is more hope for a fool than for him!
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
People who think they are wise when they are not are worse than fools.
If you should see a man wise in his own eyes, a fool is much better than he.
The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceit? There is more hope of a foole then of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Thou hast seyn a man seme wijs to hym silf; an vnkunnyng man schal haue hope more than he.
Do you see a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for fools than for people who think they are wise.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eye, - more hope of a dullard, than of him!
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
See that man who thinks he's so smart? You can expect far more from a fool than from him.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Seest: Proverbs 22:29, Proverbs 29:20, Matthew 21:31, Luke 7:44
a man: Proverbs 26:5, Proverbs 26:16, Proverbs 28:11, Proverbs 29:20, Matthew 21:31, Luke 18:11, Romans 12:16, 1 Corinthians 3:18, 1 Corinthians 3:19, 2 Corinthians 8:1, 2 Corinthians 8:2, Revelation 3:17
Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:7 - Be Proverbs 12:15 - way Proverbs 14:6 - scorner Proverbs 23:4 - cease Proverbs 30:32 - thou hast done Isaiah 5:21 - wise Ezekiel 28:5 - thy great wisdom Matthew 6:23 - If Luke 11:35 - General John 9:34 - and dost John 9:41 - If John 11:49 - Ye Acts 17:18 - babbler Romans 1:22 - General Romans 2:19 - art confident Romans 11:25 - lest Romans 12:3 - not to 1 Corinthians 8:2 - if 2 Corinthians 10:12 - are not wise Galatians 6:3 - if 1 Timothy 6:4 - He
Cross-References
And Abraham was old & stricken in dayes, and the Lorde had blessed Abraham in all thinges.
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
Soiourne in this lande, and I wyl be with thee, and wyll blesse thee: for vnto thee and vnto thy seede I wyll geue all these countreys, and I wyll perfourme the othe whiche I sware vnto Abraham thy father.
And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.
And after he had ben there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines loked out at a windowe, & sawe Isahac sportyng with Rebecca his wyfe.
Abimelech said: why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people myght lyghtly haue lyne by thy wyfe, and so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs.
And so Abimelech charged al his people, saying: He that toucheth this man or his wyfe, shall dye the death.
That thou shouldest do vs no hurt, as we haue not touched thee, and as we haue done vnto thee nothyng but good, & sent thee away in peace: for thou art nowe the blessed of the Lorde.
For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also?
So the Lorde blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had fourteene thousand sheepe, sixe thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit,.... Or "in his own eyes" b; as multitudes may be seen, by looking round; man is a creature but of small knowledge in things natural, civil, mechanical, philosophical, moral, or divine; yet greatly conceited for the most part of his knowledge and wisdom. As by a "fool" in this book is generally understood a wicked profane man, so by a wise man is meant a good and righteous man, and may be so understood here; and many there are who are good and righteous only their own conceit and esteem, not truly so; they place their righteousness in outward things, in the observance of external duties; and though there may be some little imperfection in them, yet they think, as they mean well, God will accept the will for the deed: and some have imagined they have arrived to perfection; and such are generally conceited, proud, and haughty, and despise others; all which flows from ignorance; for, though they fancy themselves to be wise, they are very ignorant of themselves; of the plague of their own hearts; of the law of God, and the spirituality of it, and the extensiveness of its demands; of the strict justice and righteousness of God, which will not admit of an imperfect righteousness in the room of a perfect one; and also of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, the nature and necessity of that to justify: and this being their case, they are in very dangerous circumstances; they are building on a sand; they are liable to fall into a ditch; they cannot be justified nor saved by their own works; they oppose themselves to God's way of justifying and saving sinners; and he sets himself against them, he resisteth the proud. Wherefore
[there is] more hope of a fool than of him; of a profane sinner than of a self-righteous person; for Christ came to save sinners, to call them to repentance, and he receives them as such; but not self-righteous persons; and, humanly speaking, there is a greater likelihood and greater hopes of convincing sinners, and bringing them to repentance and to forsake their sins, than there is of convincing a self-righteous man of the insufficiency of his righteousness, and the folly of trusting to it, and of bringing him to repent of such a confidence, and to forsake it; for it is most natural to him; it is his own, and the effect of great labour and pains; and encourages vanity and boasting, which would be excluded should he part with it; see Matthew 21:31.
b בעיניו "in oculis suis", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, &c.
