Proverbs 26:11-21

11 A fool who repeats his foolishness is like a dog that goes back to what it has thrown up.

12 There is more hope for a foolish person than for those who think they are wise.

13 The lazy person says, "There's a lion in the road! There's a lion in the streets!"

14 Like a door turning back and forth on its hinges, the lazy person turns over and over in bed.

15 Lazy people may put their hands in the dish, but they are too tired to lift the food to their mouths.

16 The lazy person thinks he is wiser than seven people who give sensible answers.

17 Interfering in someone else's quarrel as you pass by is like grabbing a dog by the ears.

18 Like a madman shooting deadly, burning arrows

19 is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."

20 Without wood, a fire will go out, and without gossip, quarreling will stop.

21 Just as charcoal and wood keep a fire going, a quarrelsome person keeps an argument going.

Proverbs 26:11-21 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.