Proverbs Chapter 26 verse 12 Holy Bible
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
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Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? (Proverbs 3:7). Nothing so shuts the door against improvement as self-conceit. "Woe unto them," says Isaiah (Isaiah 5:21), "that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight." Such persons, professing themselves wise, become fools (Romans 1:22; Romans 12:16; Revelation 3:17, 18). Touching conceit, Qui sibi sapit, summe desipit. The Oriental speaks of the fox finding his shadow very large, and of the wolf when alone thinking himself a lion. There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 29:20). A fool who is conscious of unwisdom may be set right; but one who fancies himself perfect, and needing no improvement, is beyond cure; his case is hopeless. So the sinner who feels and acknowledges his iniquity may be converted; but the self-righteous Pharisee, who considers himself to have no need of repentance, will never be reformed (see Matthew Luke 15:7; Luke 18:14). St. Chrysostom (Hom. in Phil.,' 7), "Haughtiness is a great evil; it is better to be a fool than haughty; for in the one case the folly is only a perversion of intellect, but in the other ease it is still worse; for it is folly joined with madness. The fool is an evil to himself; but the haughty man is a plague to others too. One cannot be haughty-minded without being a fool... The soul which is puffed up has a worse disease than dropsy, while that which is under restraint is treed from all evil" (Oxford transl.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit.--Comp. the warnings of Romans 12:16, and Revelation 3:17-18.There is more hope of a fool than of him.--So the "publicans and harlots," who had foolishly strayed from God, yet returned to Him at the preaching of the Saviour, while the Pharisees and lawyers "rejected the counsel of God against themselves" (Luke 7:30), thinking they had no need of it.