Matthew Henry · Verses 6–9
Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honour. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.
Proverbs 26:6
One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
World English Bible
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WEBBE
One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
BSB
Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
KJV
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
ASV
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off [his own] feet, [and] drinketh in damage.
BBE
He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.
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