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Text -- Proverbs 26:16 (NET)

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26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Seven | Sarcasm | SLUGGARD | REASON; REASONABLE; REASONING | Pride | PROVERB | Laziness | Conceit | more
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Wesley: Pro 26:16 - -- A satisfactory reason of ail their actions.

A satisfactory reason of ail their actions.

JFB: Pro 26:16 - -- The thoughtless being ignorant of their ignorance are conceited.

The thoughtless being ignorant of their ignorance are conceited.

Clarke: Pro 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...

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.

TSK: Pro 26:16 - -- Pro 26:12, Pro 12:15; 1Pe 3:15

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Barnes: Pro 26:16 - -- Seven - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Pro 24:16). Reason - Better, a right judgment.

Seven - The definite number used for the indefinite (compare Pro 24:16).

Reason - Better, a right judgment.

Poole: Pro 26:16 - -- Is wiser in his own conceit because by his idleness he avoids those troubles and dangers to which other men by their activity expose themselves, forg...

Is wiser in his own conceit because by his idleness he avoids those troubles and dangers to which other men by their activity expose themselves, forgetting in the mean thee what reproach and loss, and how much greater mischiefs, both here and hereafter, are brought upon him by his slothfulness.

That can render a reason to wit, a satisfactory reason, of all their actions, i.e. who are truly wise men.

Haydock: Pro 26:16 - -- Seven, or many wise men, who used to speak in a sententious manner. (Calmet) --- So seven is used, ver. 25.

Seven, or many wise men, who used to speak in a sententious manner. (Calmet) ---

So seven is used, ver. 25.

Gill: Pro 26:16 - -- 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 slo...

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, Est 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 1Pe 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.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 26:16 The term means “taste; judgment.” The related verb means “to taste; to perceive,” that is, “to examine by tasting,”...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Pro 26:1-28 - --1 Observations about fools;13 about sluggards;17 and about contentious busy-bodies.

MHCC: Pro 26:16 - --He that takes pains in religion, knows he is working for a good Master, and that his labour shall not be in vain.

Matthew Henry: Pro 26:16 - -- Observe, 1. The high opinion which the sluggard has of himself, notwithstanding the gross absurdity and folly of his slothfulness: He thinks himself...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 26:16 - -- 16 The sluggard is wise in his own eyes, More than seven men who give an excellent answer. Between slothfulness and conceit there exists no inward...

Constable: Pro 25:1--29:27 - --IV. MAXIMS EXPRESSING WISDOM chs. 25--29 We return now to the proverbs of Solomon (cf. 1:1-22:16). Chapters 25-2...

Constable: Pro 26:1-28 - --2. Fools and folly ch. 26 The analogies in chapter 25 dealt with both wise and foolish conduct, but those in chapter 26 deal mainly with fools and fol...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 26 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 26:1, Observations about fools; Pro 26:13, about sluggards; Pro 26:17, and about contentious busy-bodies.

Poole: Proverbs 26 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 26 Rules how to carry it towards fools, Pro 26:1-12 . The slothful man described, Pro 26:13-16 . The character of a contentious man, and of...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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