## Rashi on Proverbs Chapter 26

###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:1:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:1:1)

**כַּשֶּׁלֶג בַּקַּיִץ.** בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁשּׁוֹטְחִין הַתְּאֵנִים בַּחַמָּה לְיַבְּשָׁן וְלַעֲשׂוֹת קְצִיעוֹת, כְּדַאֲמַר ״הַלֶּחֶם וְהַקַּיִץ לֶאֱכֹל הַנְּעָרִים״ (שמואל ב טז:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Like snow in the summer** when they spread the figs in the sun to dry them and to make fig cakes, as is stated (II Sam. 16:2): “the bread and the dried figs for the young men to eat.”


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:2:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:2:1)

**כַּצִּפּוֹר לָנוּד.** שֶׁהוּא נָד, וְ**כַדְּרוֹר** שֶׁהוּא חוֹזֵר לְקִנּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Like a wandering sparrow** that wanders and like a swallow that returns to its nest, so...


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:2:2
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:2:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:2:2)

**כֵּן קִלְלַת חִנָּם לֹא תָבוֹא.** לְמִי שֶׁהוֹצִיאָהּ בְּפִיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**will a vain curse come home** to the one who uttered it with his mouth.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:2:3
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:2:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:2:3)

**דְּרוֹר.** הוּא עוֹף הַנִּקְרָא רונדל״ע בְּלַעַ״ז, וְנִקְרָא דְּרוֹר – שֶׁדָּרָה בַּבַּיִת כְּבַשָּׂדֶה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**swallow Heb.** דרור. This is the bird known as arondele in Old French, [hirondelle in modern French, schwalbe in German,] which is called דרור, because it lives (דר) in a house as in a field.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:3:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:3:1)

**שׁוֹט לַסּוּס.** הוּא עָשׂוּי, וְאַף שֵׁבֶט נָכוֹן **לְגֵו כְּסִילִים.** יִסּוּרִין מוּכָנִין לָרָשָׁע (שמות רבה ט:ח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**A whip is for the horse** [It] is made for the horse, and also a rod is prepared for the body of fools. Tortures are prepared for the wicked.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:4:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:4:1)

**אַל תַּעַן כְּסִיל.** בְּדִבְרֵי רִיב וּמַצָּה, **פֶּן תִּשְׁוֶה לּוֹ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Do not answer a fool** with words of quarrel and contention lest you become like him.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:5:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:5:1)

**עֲנֵה כְסִיל.** הַבָּא לַהֲסִיתְךָ לַעֲבוֹדָה זָרָה, הוֹדַע לוֹ אִוַּלְתּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Answer a fool** who comes to win you over to idolatry; let him know his folly.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:5:2
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:5:2)

**פֶּן יִהְיֶה חָכָם בְּעֵינָיו.** וְטַעַם שְׁנֵי פְסוּקִים אֵלּוּ מְפֹרָשׁ בְּתוֹכָם: **אַל תַּעַן** בְּדָבָר שֶׁתִּשְׁוֶה לוֹ אִם תַּעֲנֵהוּ, **עֲנֵה כְסִיל** בְּדָבָר שֶׁאִם לֹא תַעֲנֵהוּ יִהְיֶה חָכָם בְּעֵינָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**lest he be wise in his sight** The meaning of these two verses is explained in [the verses] themselves: **Do not answer** in a matter in which you will become like him if you answer him. **Answer a fool** in a matter in which he will be wise in his sight if you do not answer him.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:6:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:6:1)

**מְקַצֶּה רַגְלַיִם חָמָס שׁוֹתֶה.** מִי שֶׁשּׁוֹלֵחַ דְּבָרִים בְּיַד כְּסִיל הוּא מְקַצֶּה רַגְלֵי שְׁלוּחִים הַרְבֵּה, לַחֲזוֹר וְלִשְׁלֹחַ לְתַקֵּן מַה שֶּׁעִוֵּת הָרִאשׁוֹן, אֲשֶׁר שְׁלָחוֹ בַּתְּחִלָּה; **וְשׁוֹתֶה חָמָס.** שֶׁחֲבֵרוֹ זוֹעֵף עָלָיו עַל שְׁלִיחוּת הַכְּסִיל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**wears out legs and “drinks violence”** He who sends a message by the hand of a fool wears out the legs of many messengers by repetitively sending [them] to rectify what the first one, whom he sent at the beginning, distorted. And he “drinks violence,” for his fellow is wroth with him for sending a fool.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:7:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:7:1)

**דַּלְיוּ שׁוֹקַיִם מִפִּסֵּחַ.** גָּבְהוּ, כְּמוֹ ״דָּלּוּ עֵינַי״ (ישעיהו לח:יד); הַשּׁוֹקַיִם שֶׁל כָּל אָדָם נִרְאִין לַפִּסֵּחַ גְּבוֹהִים מִמֶּנּוּ. וְדָבָר זֶה מָשָׁל בְּפִי כְסִיל, הָאוֹמֵר אוֹתוֹ עַל לִמּוּד הַחָכְמָה: אֵיךְ אָנוּ בָּאִים לִלְמֹד הַחָכְמָה? נִפְלָאָה וּגְבוֹהָה הִיא מִמֶּנּוּ! הַמָּשָׁל אוֹמֵר: **דַּלְיוּ שׁוֹקַיִם מִפִּסֵּחַ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**thighs seem raised to a lame man** Heb. דליו, as in (Isa. 38:14): “My eyes were lifted (דלו).” Every man’s thighs appear to the lame to be higher than he. This phrase is a parable in the mouth of the fool, who says it in reference to the study of wisdom, “How can we come to study wisdom? It is hidden and raised up higher than I am. The parable states, ‘Thighs seem raised to a lame man.’”


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:8:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:8:1)

**בְּמַרְגֵּמָה.** פְרוֹנְדוֹלָ״א בְּלַעַ״ז, שֶׁאֶבֶן שֶׁצּוֹרְרִין בּוֹ לֹא לְהִתְקַיֵּם הִיא שָׁם, שֶׁעוֹמֶדֶת לְהִזָּרֵק. כָּךְ הַנּוֹתֵן לִכְסִיל כָּבוֹד אֵינוֹ שֶׁל קַיָּמָא. וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה דָּרְשׁוּ (חולין קלג.) עַל הַמְּלַמֵּד תּוֹרָה לְתַלְמִיד שֶׁאֵינוֹ הָגוּן, שֶׁהוּא כְּזוֹרֵק אֶבֶן לְמַרְקוּלִיס:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in a slingshot** Heb. במרגמה fronde in French, Schleuder in German, in which the stone tied will not remain, for it is destined to be thrown, so is it with one who gives honor to a fool—it is not permanent. And our Sages (Hullin 133a) explained it homiletically as referring to one who teaches Torah to an unfitting student, that he is tantamount to casting a stone into a merculis.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:9:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:9:1)

**חוֹחַ עָלָה בְיַד שִׁכּוֹר.** כְּחוֹחַ שֶׁהוּא נִדְבָּק בְּיַד שִׁכּוֹר, כֵּן הַמָּשָׁל הָאָמוּר לְמַטָּה (משלי כו:י) נִדְבָּק בְּפִי הַכְּסִיל לִהְיוֹת לָהֶם לְחוֹחַ וּלְקוֹץ מַכְאִיב. וּמַהוּ הַמָּשָׁל?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**A thorn came up in a drunkard’s hand** Just like a thorn that is stuck to a drunkard’s hand, so is the parable stated below stuck in the mouth of a fool to be for him as a thorn—yea, a painful thorn. Now what is the parable?...


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:10:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:10:1)

**רַב מְחוֹלֵל כֹּל.** הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא בָּרָא אֶת הַכֹּל וְדָן אֶת הַכֹּל; כַּכְּסִיל כֶּחָכָם, אֵין אָנוּ צְרִיכִין לְשׁוּם חָכְמָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The Master created all** The Holy One, blessed be He, created all and sustains all, the fool like the wise man. We do not need any wisdom.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:10:2
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:10:2)

**וְשׂוֹכֵר כְּסִיל.** לֹא כְּבָשָׂר וָדָם שֶׁלֹּא יִשְׂכֹּר אֶלָּא פּוֹעֲלִים בְּקִיאִים וְלֹא יִשְׂכֹּר אֶלָּא הָעוֹסְקִים בִּמְלַאכְתּוֹ, אֲבָל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא **מְחוֹלֵל כֹּל וְשׂוֹכֵר הַכְּסִילִים וְשׂוֹכֵר** עוֹבֵר דְּרָכִים הַבַּטְלָנִים מִכָּל מְלָאכָה. וּמִדְרַשׁ אַגָּדָה: **וְשׂוֹכֵר כְּסִיל** מִלְּשׁוֹן ״וַיִּסָּכְרוּ מַעְיְנוֹת תְּהוֹם״ (בראשית ח:ב), וּלְשׁוֹן ״עֹשֵׂי שֶׂכֶר״ (ישעיהו יט:י): הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא סוֹכֵר מַזַּל כְּסִיל הַמְשַׁמֵּשׁ בִּימוֹת הַחַמָּה מִתִּשְׁרֵי וְאֵילָךְ, וּמֵאָז הוּא סוֹכֵר וְסוֹגֵר כָּל עוֹבְרֵי הַיָּם מִלֵּילֵךְ בּוֹ עַד הַפֶּסַח. וּבְדִבְרֵי רַבִּי מֹשֶׁה רָאִיתִי: **רַב מְחוֹלֵל כֹּל** עָשִׁיר יֵשׁ לוֹ פְּעֻלּוֹת הַרְבֵּה, וְאִם **שׂוֹכֵר כְּסִיל** בִּמְלַאכְתּוֹ הִנֵּה הוּא כְּשׂוֹכֵר כָּל עוֹבְרֵי דֶרֶךְ שֶׁרוֹאִין בְּקִלְקוּל הַמְּלָאכָה, לְהוֹרוֹת אֵיךְ יִתָּכֵן וְאֵיךְ יֵשׁ לוֹ לִפְעֹל; וְדָבָר רֵיק הוּא, וְאֵינוֹ עִנְיָן כָּאן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and He hires a fool** Unlike a mortal, who hires only expert workers, and who hires only those engaged in his work, the Holy One, blessed be He, creates all and hires the fools and hires wayfarers, who are idle from all work. [According to] Midrash Aggadah, ושכר כסיל is from an expression of (Gen. 8:2) “And the fountains of the deep were closed (ויסכרו),” and an expression of (Isa. 19:10) “who make dams (שכר).” The Holy One, blessed be He, closes up the constellation of Orion (כסיל), which serves in the summer from Tishri on, and from then on, He closes off all who traverse the sea from going into it until Passover. And in the words of Rabbi Moses, I saw: רב מחולל כל, A wealthy man has many activities, and if he hires a fool, it is as though he is hiring all wayfarers who witness the deterioration of the work, to instruct how to rectify it and how he should work. This is, however, an empty thing and has no connection here.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:15:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:15:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:15:1)

**בַּצַּלָּחַת.** בְּיוֹרָה חַמָּה נוֹתֵן יָדוֹ, מִפְּנֵי הַקֹּר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in the cauldron** He buries his hand in a hot cauldron because of the cold.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:16:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:16:1)

**מְשִׁיבֵי טָעַם.** חֲכָמִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who give advice** wise men.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:17:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:17:1)

**מַחֲזִיק בְּאָזְנֵי כָלֶב.** הָעוֹבֵר לְהִתְעַבֵּר עַל רִיב לֹא לוֹ הֲרֵי הוּא כְּאוֹחֵז **בְּאָזְנֵי כָּלֶב**, הַגּוֹרֵם שֶׁיִּשְּׁכֶנּוּ עַל חִנָּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**one who grabs a dog by its ears** One who passes by and becomes embroiled in a quarrel that is not his is like one who grabs a dog by his ears, who causes him to bite him for no reason.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:18:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:18:1)

**כְּמִתְלַהְלֵהַּ.** כְּמִתְיַגֵּעַ לִירוֹת זִיקִים שֶׁל אֵשׁ, כְּמוֹ ״וּבְזִיקוֹת בְּעַרְתֶּם״ (ישעיה נ:יא), מִלְּשׁוֹן ׳זִיקוּקִים דִּינוּר׳ (ברכות נח:). דָּבָר אַחֵר: **זִיקִים.** ׳פְרוֹנְזוֹלָ״שׁ׳, מִלְּשׁוֹן ״אַבְנֵי קָלַע״ (זכריה ט:טו), וְכֵן בַּגְּמָרָא (בבא מציעא צד.): זִיקְתָא פְּסִיק לָן; וְיוֹרֶה **חִצִּים וָמָוֶת**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Like one who wearies himself** Like one who wearies himself shooting sparks of fire, as in (Isa. 50: 11): “and in the flames (ובזיקות) you have kindled”; from the expression זיקוקים דינור (Ber. 58b), flames of fire. Another explanation. זקים, frondeles in Old French, slings, from an expression of slingstones (Zech. 9:15), and so in the Talmud (Baba Mezia 94a) זיקתא פסוק לן, “slingers are assigned to us.” He shoots arrows and death.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:19:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:19:1)

**כֵּן אִישׁ רִמָּה.** מְפַתֶּה וּמֵסִית אֶת חֲבֵירוֹ מִדַּרְכֵי חַיִּים לְדַרְכֵי מָוֶת, וּכְשֶׁחֲבֵירוֹ מַרְגִּישׁ שֶׁהוּא מַתְעֶה אוֹתוֹ, אוֹמֵר: מְצַחֵק אָנִי (בראשית רבה נג,יא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**so is a man who deceives** He wins over and entices his friend from ways of life to ways of death, and when his friend realizes that he is misleading him, he says, “I am joking.”


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:20:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:20:1)

**בְּאֶפֶס עֵצִים.** כְּלוֹמַר שְׁנֵי דְבָרִים אֵלּוּ שָׁוִין: כְּשֵׁם שֶׁ**בְּאֶפֶס עֵצִים תִּכְבֶּה אֵשׁ**, כָּךְ **בְּאֵין נִרְגָּן** שֶׁל לָשׁוֹן הָרָע הַמְסַכְסֵךְ בַּעֲלֵי רִיב, **יִשְׁתֹּק מָדוֹן**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**without wood** That is to say: These two things are analogous; just as without wood the fire goes out, so without a grumbler, who slanders and incites quarrelers, strife quiets down.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:21:1
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**פֶּחָם לְגֶחָלִים וְעֵצִים לְאֵשׁ.** פֶּחָם שֶׁל אֵשׁ עָשׂוּי לְהַבְעִיר גֶּחָלִים עֲמוּמוֹת וְעֵצִים עֲשׂוּיִן לְהַסִּיק אֵשׁ, **וְאִישׁ מָדוֹן לְחַרְחַר רִיב**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**As charcoal is for coals and wood is for fire** Charcoal on fire is capable of igniting dying embers, and wood is capable of kindling fire, and a quarrelsome man of kindling strife.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:22:1
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**כְּמִתְלַהֲמִים.** לְשׁוֹן מִתְלַחֲמִים. וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה פֵּרְשׁוּ (ספרי דברים כד) כְּמִתְלַהֲמִים: כְּמֵת לָהֶם. דִּבְרֵי הַמְרַגְּלִים הָיוּ לָהֶם לְמִיתָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**as though waging battle** Heb. כמתלהמים, an expression of מתלחמים. Our Sages however, explained כמתלהמים, כמתלהם, like death to them. The words of the spies became their death.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:22:2
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**חַדְרֵי בָטֶן.** הִיא מִיתַת הַדְּרוֹקָן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the innermost parts of the body** lit. they go down into the chambers of the stomach. This is the death of dropsy.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:23:1
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**מְצֻפֶּה עַל חָרֶשׂ.** כְּסִיגֵי כֶסֶף הַמְּדֻבָּקִים עַל הַחֶרֶשׂ שֶׁצּוֹרְפִין אוֹתוֹ בּוֹ, וְהוּא מַבְהִיק כְּאִלּוּ הוּא כֶּסֶף, וְאֵין בּוֹ תּוֹעֶלֶת, כֵּן **שְׂפָתַיִם דֹּלְקִים וְלֶב רָע.** הָרוֹדְפִים אַחַר הַבְּרִיּוֹת לַהֲסִיתָם בַּחֲלָקוֹת וּמְדַבְּרִים אֶחָד בַּפֶּה וְאֶחָד בַּלֵּב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**overlaid on earthenware** Like silver dross attached to the earthenware in which it is refined, making the utensil shine as though it were silver although it has no use, so are burning lips and wicked heart, which pursue people to entice them with smooth and hypocritical talk.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:23:2
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**וְלֵב רָע.** נִרְאִין כְּאוֹהֲבִין וְהֵם אוֹיְבִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and a wicked heart** They appear to be friends, but they are enemies.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:23:3
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**דּוֹלְקִים.** כְּמוֹ ״דָּלַקְתָּ אַחֲרָי״ (בראשית לא:לו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**burning** Heb. דולקים, as in “you pursued (דלקת) me so hotly” (Gen. 31:36).


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:24:1
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**יִנָּכֵר שׂוֹנֵא.** בְּדִבּוּרוֹ מִתְנַכֵּר הַשּׂוֹנֵא, שֶׁלֹּא יַכִּירוּ שֶׁהוּא שׂוֹנֵא. דִישְׁקְנוֹיִישְׁ״ט בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**An enemy dissembles** With his speech, an enemy dissembles, so that it is not recognizable that he is an enemy. ינכר, deconnoitre in French, [verkennen in German, and so did Redak write, that it is an expression of denial and making oneself strange, the opposite of recognition (הכרה)].


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:26:1
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**תְּכֻסֶּה שִׂנְאָה.** הָעוֹשֶׂה מַעֲשָׂיו בַּמַּחְשָׁךְ וּמְכַסֶּה בְּמַשָּׁאוֹן, שֶׁהוּא חֹשֶׁךְ (ס״א: שׁוֹאַת חֹשֶׁךְ), אֶת הַדָּבָר הַשָּׂנאוּי לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, סוֹף שֶׁהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא **מְגַלֶּה רָעָתוֹ בְקָהָל**, שֶׁיַּכִּירוּ בּוֹ שֶׁהוּא רָשָׁע (סוטה ט.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**When the hatred is covered with darkness** If one performs his deed in the darkness and conceals with משאון, which is pitch darkness (שואת חשך) the thing that is hated by the Holy One, blessed be He, [then] ultimately the Holy One, blessed be He, will reveal his evil in public, so that they should recognize that he is wicked.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:27:1
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:27:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:27:1)

**כּוֹרֶה שַׁחַת.** כְּגוֹן בִּלְעָם, שֶׁהִשִּׂיא עֵצָה לְבָלָק עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְהִפִּיל מֵהֶם עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה אֶלֶף (במדבר כה:ט), וּבָא לְמִדְיָן לִתְבּוֹעַ שְׂכָרוֹ וְנֶהֱרַג בְּיַד יִשְׂרָאֵל (במדבר לא:ח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**He who digs a pit** For example, Balaam, who persuaded Balak to cause Israel to sin and caused twenty-four thousand of them to fall. He came to Midian to demand his pay and was slain by Israel.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:27:2
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:27:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:27:2)

**וְגוֹלֵל.** כְּלוֹמַר: סוֹפוֹ שֶׁל הַמַּעֲמִיד מִכְשׁוֹל, שֶׁיִּכָּשֵׁל בּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and he who rolls** That is to say that whoever places a stumbling block will ultimately stumble on it.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:27:3
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**וְגוֹלֵל אֶבֶן.** מְגַלְּלוֹ מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם, שֶׁיִּכָּשְׁלוּ בּוֹ בְּנֵי אָדָם. וְאַגָּדָה פּוֹתְרוֹ (תנחומא בובר, וירא כח) בַּאֲבִימֶלֶךְ שֶׁהָרַג שִׁבְעִים אֶחָיו עַל אֶבֶן אַחַת, וְסוֹף מֵת בָּאֶבֶן, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״וַתַּשְׁלֵךְ אִשָּׁה אַחַת פֶּלַח רֶכֶב וַתָּרִץ גֻּלְגָּלְתּוֹ וְגוֹ׳״ (שופטים ט:נג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and he who rolls a stone** He rolls it from place to place so that people will stumble on it. The Aggadah (Tanhuma Buber, Vayera 28, see footnote 157) interprets it in reference to Abimelech, who slew his seventy brothers on one stone and his end was that he died by a stone, as it is said (Jud. 9:53): “And a certain woman cast a piece of an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.”


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:28:1
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**יִשְׂנָא דַכָּיו.** מִי שֶׁמְּקַבֵּל לָשׁוֹן הָרָע שׂוֹנֵא אֶת הַנִּדְכָּאִים תַּחְתָּיו, שֶׁכֵּן עַל לָשׁוֹן הָרָע רָדַף שָׁאוּל לְדָוִד וְהָרַג נוֹב (שמואל א כב:יח-יט):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**hates those crushed under him** He who accepts slander hates those crushed under him, for Saul pursued David because of slander and slew Nob.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:28:2
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:28:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:28:2)

**וּפֶה חָלָק.** פֶּה שֶׁל חֲלַקְלַקּוּת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and a smooth mouth** A mouth of flattery.


###### Rashi on Proverbs 26:28:3
[Rashi on Proverbs 26:28:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Proverbs/r/26:28:3)

**יַעֲשֶׂה מִדְחֶה.** עוֹשֶׂה דִּיחוּי, שֶׁדּוֹחֶה אֶת מְקַבְּלוֹ מֵעַל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**effects rejection** It makes him rejected, for it rejects the one who accepts it from upon the Holy One, blessed be He.