Hiring a fool releases indiscriminate damage like an archer wounding everyone within range.
The image of recklessness in Proverbs 26:10 warns about the cost of hiring fools: Like an archer who wounds everyone, so is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by (v. 10).
Like an archer who wounds everyone. The Hebrew is debated, but the most common reading describes an archer shooting arrows in every direction without aim, hitting everyone within range. The picture is of indiscriminate damage caused by careless force.
He who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by. The man who hires a fool, or who hires random unknown laborers without checking their character, releases the same kind of indiscriminate damage on his work, his neighbors, and his enterprise. The verse warns the wise man that hiring is consequential. Bringing a fool into your work is bringing wounds you did not anticipate.
Proverbs 26:10
10 Like an archer who wounds everyone,
So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
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Proverbs 26:10 meaning
The image of recklessness in Proverbs 26:10 warns about the cost of hiring fools: Like an archer who wounds everyone, so is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by (v. 10).
Like an archer who wounds everyone. The Hebrew is debated, but the most common reading describes an archer shooting arrows in every direction without aim, hitting everyone within range. The picture is of indiscriminate damage caused by careless force.
He who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by. The man who hires a fool, or who hires random unknown laborers without checking their character, releases the same kind of indiscriminate damage on his work, his neighbors, and his enterprise. The verse warns the wise man that hiring is consequential. Bringing a fool into your work is bringing wounds you did not anticipate.