Like cutting off one's own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool. People SolomonPlaces JerusalemTopics Cuts, Cutteth, Cutting, Damage, Drinketh, Drinking, Drinks, Fool, Foolish, Injury, Message, News, One's, Sending, Sends, ViolenceOutline 1. observations about fools13. about sluggards17. and about contentious busybodiesJump to Previous Cuts Cutteth Cutting Damage Drinketh Drinking Drinks Feet Fool Foolish Hand Injury Message News One's Sending Sends ViolenceJump to Next Cuts Cutteth Cutting Damage Drinketh Drinking Drinks Feet Fool Foolish Hand Injury Message News One's Sending Sends ViolenceLibrary One Lion Two Lions no Lion at All A sermon (No. 1670) delivered on Thursday Evening, June 8th, 1882, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, by C. H. Spurgeon. "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets."--Proverbs 22:13. "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets."--Proverbs 26:13. This slothful man seems to cherish that one dread of his about the lions, as if it were his favorite aversion and he felt it to be too much trouble to invent another excuse. … C.H. Spurgeon—Sermons on ProverbsThe Hebrew Sages and their Proverbs [Sidenote: Role of the sages in Israel's life] In the days of Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Jer. xviii. 18; Ezek. vii. 26) three distinct classes of religious teachers were recognized by the people: the prophets, the priests, and the wise men or sages. From their lips and pens have come practically all the writings of the Old Testament. Of these three classes the wise men or sages are far less prominent or well known. They wrote no history of Israel, they preached no public sermons, nor do they appear … Charles Foster Kent—The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament We Shall not be Curious in the Ranking of the Duties in which Christian Love... We shall not be curious in the ranking of the duties in which Christian love should exercise itself. All the commandments of the second table are but branches of it: they might be reduced all to the works of righteousness and of mercy. But truly these are interwoven through other. Though mercy uses to be restricted to the showing of compassion upon men in misery, yet there is a righteousness in that mercy, and there is mercy in the most part of the acts of righteousness, as in not judging rashly, … Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Proverbs Many specimens of the so-called Wisdom Literature are preserved for us in the book of Proverbs, for its contents are by no means confined to what we call proverbs. The first nine chapters constitute a continuous discourse, almost in the manner of a sermon; and of the last two chapters, ch. xxx. is largely made up of enigmas, and xxxi. is in part a description of the good housewife. All, however, are rightly subsumed under the idea of wisdom, which to the Hebrew had always moral relations. The Hebrew … John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Parallel Verses NASB: He cuts off his own feet and drinks violence Who sends a message by the hand of a fool.KJV: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
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