THEOSISProverbs 26:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.
דַּלְי֣וּ שֹׁ֭קַיִם מִפִּסֵּ֑חַ וּ֝מָשָׁ֗ל בְּפִ֣י כְסִילִֽים׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 26:9As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Prov 17:7Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.
- Ps 64 (63):8
- Luke 4:23And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.
- Ps 50 (49):16
- Ps 50 (49):21
- Matt 7:4Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?
- Matt 7:5Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.