Proverbs 26:17

As he that lays hold of a dog's tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another's cause.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

In Context

16A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who + 26:16 Compare Heb. most satisfactorily brings back a message.

18As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:11Every bad man stirs up strifes: but the Lord will send out against him an unmerciful messenger.

Proverbs 20:3It is a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:17

16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Observe, 1. The high opinion which the sluggard has of himself, notwithstanding the gross absurdity and folly of his slothfulness: He thinks himself wiser than seven men, than seven wise men, for they are such as can render a reason. It is the wisdom of a man to be able to render a reason, of a good man to be able to give a reason of the hope that is in him, 1 Pet. iii. 15 . What we do we should be able to render a reason for,… Read the whole commentary →

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