Proverbes 26:6-16

6 Celui qui envoie des messages par un fou, se coupe les pieds, et boit la peine du tort qu'il se fait.
7 Comme les jambes de l'impotent sont sans force, ainsi est une sentence dans la bouche d'un insensé.
8 Faire honneur à un insensé, c'est mettre une pierre précieuse dans un monceau de pierres.
9 Un discours sentencieux dans la bouche d'un insensé, est comme une épine dans la main d'un homme ivre.
10 Celui qui prend à son service les insensés et les premiers venus, est comme un archer qui blesse tout le monde.
11 Comme le chien retourne à ce qu'il a vomi, ainsi l'insensé revient à sa folie.
12 As-tu vu un homme qui croit être sage? Il y a plus à espérer d'un fou que de lui.
13 Le paresseux dit: Le grand lion est dans le chemin; le lion est par les rues.
14 Comme la porte tourne sur ses gonds, le paresseux se tourne sur son lit.
15 Le paresseux plonge la main dans le plat, et il a de la peine à la ramener à sa bouche.
16 Le paresseux se croit plus sage que sept hommes qui savent répondre avec bon sens.

Proverbes 26:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 13

In this chapter is an account of a man of God being sent to exclaim against Jeroboam's altar, and threaten its destruction, of which he gave a sign, which was accomplished, and with it the withering of the king's hand, which was healed upon the prophet's prayer for him, 1Ki 13:1-7, who would have entertained him at his house, but he refused the offer, and departed, 1Ki 13:8-10, but an old prophet in Bethel hearing of him, rode after him, and fetched him back to eat bread with him, through a lie he told him, 1Ki 13:11-19 upon which the word came to the old prophet, threatening the man of God with death for disobeying his command, and which was accordingly executed by a lion that met him in the way, and slew him, 1Ki 13:20-24, of which the old prophet being informed, went and took up his carcass, and buried it in his own sepulchre, where he charged his sons to bury him also when dead, believing that all the man of God had said would be fulfilled, 1Ki 13:25-30 and the chapter is closed with observing the continuance of Jeroboam in his idolatry, 1Ki 13:33,34.

The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.