Proverbios 27:16

16 Quien la domine, podrá dominar el vientoy retener[a] aceite en la mano.

Proverbios 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.

Proverbios 27:16 In-Context

14 El mejor saludo se juzga una impertinenciacuando se da a gritos y de madrugada.
15 Gotera constante en un día lluviosoes la mujer que siempre pelea.
16 Quien la domine, podrá dominar el vientoy retener aceite en la mano.
17 El hierro se afila con el hierro,y el hombre en el trato con el hombre.
18 El que cuida de la higuera comerá de sus higos,y el que vela por su amo recibirá honores.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "y retener" . Lit. "y llamará" .
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