Sprueche 27:16

16 Wer dieses zurückhält, hält den Wind zurück und seine Rechte greift in Öl.

Sprueche 27:16 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 27:16

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind
Whoever attempts to stop her brawls and contentions, to repress and restrain them, and hinder her voice being heard in the streets, and endeavours to hide the shame that comes upon herself and family, attempts a thing as impossible as to hide the wind in the palm of a man's hand, or to stop it from blowing; for as that, by being restrained or pent up by any methods that can be used, makes the greater noise, so, by all the means that are used to still a contentious woman, she is but the more noisy and clamorous, and becomes more shameful and infamous; and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself]:
or "will call" or "calls" F8, and says, in effect, Here am I; for the smell of it, which cannot be hid when held in a man's hand, betrays it; and the faster he holds it, and the more he presses and squeezes it, and the more it is heated hereby, the more it diffuses its savour, and is known to be where it is; and so all attempts to stop the mouth of a brawling woman does but cause her to brawl the louder.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 (arqy) "clamabit", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Vatablus, Mercerus; "vocabit", Baynus; "clamat", Piscator, Michaelis; "praeconem agit", Schultens.

Sprueche 27:16 In-Context

14 Wer frühmorgens aufsteht und seinem Nächsten mit lauter Stimme Glück wünscht, als Verwünschung wird es ihm angerechnet.
15 Eine beständige Traufe am Tage des strömenden Regens und ein zänkisches Weib gleichen sich.
16 Wer dieses zurückhält, hält den Wind zurück und seine Rechte greift in Öl.
17 Eisen wird scharf durch Eisen, und ein Mann schärft das Angesicht des anderen.
18 Wer des Feigenbaumes wartet, wird seine Frucht essen; und wer über seinen Herrn wacht, wird geehrt werden.
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