Posted on 03/26/2020 6:39:26 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him” (Proverbs 26:12).
“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?” he thinks he’s somebody, “there is more hope of a fool than of him.” That's true. A fool is hard to deal with. He’s hard to straighten out, but a guy that is even harder to straighten out as a self-righteous, proud individual. “There is more hope of a fool than of him.”
The devil is the proudest one going; there's no hope in him.
“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise” (I Corinthians 3:18).
“For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself” (Galatians 6:3).
The only way that you will ever really be wise is to realize you're not very smart. You need to get it from God.
“He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears” (Proverbs 26:17).
“He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife,” there's a guy walking by, and got two other people, or a crowd of people going at it; arguing. He passes by, “meddling with strife belonging not to him.” see the strife doesn’t have anything to do with him, “is like one that taketh a dog by the ears,” he is looking for trouble.
“As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?” (Proverbs 26:18-19).
Verses 18 and 19 go together. “As a madman,” here we pick up the troublemakers and talebearers. We’ve looked at the fools and the sluggards, now we pick up the troublemakers and the talebearers.
Now, the reference here is to the practical jokers and that guy that just goes overboard with it. He's a mad man that tricks his neighbor on a regular basis. One can go too far with it. It can even get dangerous. He thinks he can always just laugh it off with a “the jokes on me! Oh, it’s just in fun. I’m just having a little sport.” I mean, you know one joke after another, and pretty soon they are trying to outdo one another. There have been cases where practical jokes went too far, some people just get carried away with them, and someone is killed. Some people just get carried away and they are like a mad man.
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