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16 Every prudent man acteth with understanding;
But a fool spreadeth abroad folly.
Hitzig reads, with the Syr. (but not the Targ.) and Jerome, כֹּל (omnia agit), but contrary to the Hebr. syntax. The כָּל־ is not feeble and useless, but means that he always acts בְּדַּעַת, mit Bedacht [with judgment] (opp. בִּבְלִי דַעַת, inconsulto, Deu 4:42; Deu 19:4), while on the contrary the fool displays folly. Pro 12:23 and Pro 15:2 serve to explain both members of the verse. Bedächtigkeit [judgment] is just knowledge directed to a definite practical end, a clear thought concentrated on a definite point. יִקְרָא, he calls out, and יַבִּיעַ, he sputters out, are parallels to יִפְרֹשׂ. Fleischer: פָּרַשׂ, expandit (opp. Arab. ṭawy, intra animum cohibuit), as a cloth or paper folded or rolled together, cf. Schiller's
(Note: “Er breitet es heiter und glänzend aus,
Das zusammengewickelte Leben.”) -
“He spreads out brightly and splendidly
The enveloped life.”
There lies in the word something derisive: as the merchant unrolls and spreads out his wares in order to commend them, so the fool does with his foolery, which he had enveloped, i.e., had the greatest interest to keep concealed within himself - he is puffed up therewith.