Proverbs 26:12
God can help/bless foolish people more easily than he can help/bless people who are not wise [RHQ], but think that they are wise.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 12:15Foolish people always think that what they are doing is right; wise people heed other people when they give them good advice.
Proverbs 26:5If you give a foolish answer to someone who asks a foolish question, he will realize that he is ◄not very wise/foolish►.
Proverbs 28:11Many rich people think that they are wise, but poor people who have good sense will find out whether rich people really are wise or not.
Proverbs 29:20God can help/bless foolish people more easily [RHQ] than he can help/bless people who speak without thinking first.
Matthew 21:31So which of the man’s two sons did what their father desired?” They answered, “The older son.” Jesus explained to them what that parable meant by saying, “Think about this: It is more likely that other people, including tax collectors and prostitutes, whom you think are very sinful, will enter where God rules, than it is that you Jewish leaders will enter.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed silently, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men. Some extort money from others; some treat others unjustly; some commit adultery. I do not do such things. And I am certainly not like this tax collector who cheats people!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:12
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. See here, 1. What an abominable thing sin is, and how hateful sometimes it is made to appear, even to the sinner himself. When his conscience is convinced, or he feels smart from his sin, he is sick of it, and vomits it up; he seems then to detest it and to be willing to part with it. It is in itself, and, first or last, will be to the sinner, more loathsome than the vomit of a dog, Ps. xxxvi. 2 . 2. How apt sinners are to relapse into it… Read the whole commentary →