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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 10:10 - 10:10
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iron ... blunt - in “cleaving wood” (Ecc 10:9), answering to the “fool set in dignity” (Ecc 10:6), who wants sharpness. More force has then to be used in both cases; but “force” without judgment “endangers” one’s self. Translate, “If one hath blunted his iron” [Maurer]. The preference of rash to judicious counselors, which entailed the pushing of matters by force, proved to be the “hurt” of Rehoboam (1Ki 12:1-33).
wisdom is profitable to direct - to a prosperous issue. Instead of forcing matters by main “strength” to one’s own hurt (Ecc 9:16, Ecc 9:18).