Teks -- Proverbs 26:10 (NET)

26:10 Like an archer who wounds at random, so is the one who hires a fool or hires any passer-by.

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Wesley: Pro 26:10 - Rewardeth

Will certainly give that recompence which is deserved by fools and transgressors, by such as sin either thro' ignorance, or wilfully.

JFB: Pro 26:10 - Various versions of this are proposed (compare Margin). Better perhaps

"Much He injures (or literally, "wounds") all who reward," &c., that is, society is injured by encouraging evil men.

JFB: Pro 26:10 - transgressors

May be rendered "vagrants." The word "God" is improperly supplied.

Clarke: Pro 26:10 - The great God that formed all things

The great God that formed all things - Or, A great man grieveth all, and he hireth the fool, he hireth also transgressors, where this verse is very differently translated. I shall add that of Coverdale: "A man of experience discerneth all thinges well: but whoso hyreth a foole, hyreth soch one as wyl take no hede."The רב rab may mean either the great God, or a great man: hence the two renderings, in the text and in the margin.

TSK: Pro 26:10 - The great // both

The great : etc. or, A great man grieveth all; and he hireth the fool, he hireth also the transgressors.

both : Pro 11:31; Rom 2:6

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Poole: Pro 26:10 - great // the Most High

God, who is oft called

great as Psa 86:10 135:5 , &c., and is described by the name of

the Most High as Psa 9:2 21:7 , &c., who created all things, and therefore observeth and governeth all men and things, will certainly give that recompence which is meet for and deserved by fools and transgressors , i.e. by such as sin either through ignorance and heedlessness, or wilfully and wickedly. Or, as it is the margin, A great man (a prince or potentate, who are called by this title, Est 1:8 Dan 1:3 , &c.) grieveth (as this word is used, Isa 51:9 53:5 , and elsewhere) all, (to wit, all that are subject to him, or all that stand in his way) he hireth (as this word most commonly signifies) the fools, he hireth also transgressors. So the sense is, It is the manner of many princes to vex and oppress their subjects, which because they cannot do by themselves alone, they hire others, both fools, who do not know or consider what they do, and transgressors, who are ready to execute all their commands, right or wrong, that they may be their instruments in that work.

Haydock: Pro 26:10 - Anger

Anger, and prevent lawsuits. Hebrew is variously read and translated. (Calmet) ---

Protestants, "the great God, that formed all things, both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth the transgressors." Marginal note, "a great man giveth all, and he hireth the fool," &c. Septuagint, "all the flesh of fools is exposed to many storms, for their excess is punished." (Haydock)

Gill: Pro 26:10 - The great God, that formed all things // both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors

The great God, that formed all things,.... That made the heavens, earth, and sea, and all that are in them; who is great in the perfections of his nature, and in the works of his hands, and greatly to be praised;

both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors; according to their works; every transgression of the law receiving its just recompence of reward, whether a man transgresses it ignorantly or wilfully; as his transgressions are, whether through error or presumption, so shall his punishment be; though some understand this, as Kimchi, of the Lord's doing good in a providential way, to the wise and unwise, the righteous and the wicked: the words are by some rendered to another sense, "a great one grieveth all, and he hireth the fool, and he hireth the transgressors" ^y; that is, a great man, a tyrannical prince, grieves all his good subjects; or, as Hottinger ^z, from the use of the word in the Arabic tongue, changes all things, inverts their order, or administers all at his will, that is, wrongly; when he hires fools and wicked men to do those bad things for him which others would not, to the great detriment of the commonwealth; and rewards them for it, putting them into posts of honour and trust, to the great grief and trouble of all his best subjects.