[638] Prov. x. 23.
[639] Prov. x. 18.
[640] Prov. xii. 23.
[641] Prov. xiv. 33.
[642] Prov. xiv. 7.
[643] Prov. xvii. 16.
[644] Prov. xxi. 20.
[645] Prov. xvii. 21.
[646] Prov. xxx. 22.
[647] Prov. xxvii. 22.
[648] Prov. xxii. 15.
[649] Prov. xvi. 22.
[650] Prov. xiv. 24. This seems simpler than supposing that the clause אִוֶּלֶת כְּמִילִים אִוֶּלֶת contains a play upon the possible double meaning of אִוֶּלֶת, which, though it yields an excellent sense,--"the power of fools is only folly," _i.e._, when they have power they turn it only to a foolish account (_cf._ xxvi. 1),--must be regarded as very obscure, especially seeing that we have no positive instance of אִוֶּלֶת as a derivative of אוּל in the sense of "power."
[651] Prov. xxvii. 3.
[652] Prov. xxix. 9.
[653] Prov. xxiv. 9.
[654] Prov. xix. 10.
[655] This is reading לוֹ for לֹא, a constant source of confusion and interchange in Hebrew MSS.
[656] Prov. x. 13.
[657] Prov. xix. 29.
[658]
"Quos divi conscia facti Mens habet attonitos et surdo verbere cædit, Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum." --JUV., _Sat._, xiii., 193.
[659] Matt. xiii. 15.
[660] Prov. xvii. 12.
[661] Prov. xxvi. 4.
[662] Prov. xxvi. 5.
[663] Prov. xxix. 11.
[664] Prov. xxvi. 8.
[665] Prov. xxvi. 6.
[666] Prov. xxvi. 7.
[667] Prov. xxvi. 9.
[668] Prov. xxvi. 10. This rendering Delitzsch obtained by altering the vowel points in the first שׂכֵר into שְׂכַר, and the sense is good, if a little far-fetched. On the other hand, the received reading gives a plain though a somewhat insipid meaning: "Much produces all,"--whoever has a little and uses it well quickly gets more,--"but he that hires a fool is as he who hires passers by," _i.e._ the employment of a fool is a barren undertaking which practically leads to nothing.
[669] Prov. xxvi. 11.
[670] Prov. xxviii. 26; _cf._ ix. 8 and xxiii. 9.
[671] Prov. xxvi. 12.
[672] נָבָל, Psalm xiv. 1.