Proverbs 26:6 meaning and explanation
Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
Proverbs 26:6, Berean Standard Bible
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This saying belongs to a cluster of proverbs in Proverbs 26 about the fool, the person who rejects wisdom and cannot be trusted with responsibility. The comparison is deliberately vivid: sending a message through a fool is as self-defeating as cutting off your own feet, which leaves you unable to walk, or as drinking violence, which brings harm on yourself.
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