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Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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Verse 9. If. Hebrew “as a thorn goeth up into the,” and so forth Prot. Bible.—If he attempt to handle or to extract one, he will wound himself the more, as the fool would render truth and wisdom contemptible. Calmet.—Parable. Septuagint “but slavery in the hands of fools” groweth up. Bible.
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