Mishlei 26:3 - A Whip for the Back of Fools (Part 1)

Uh, so we are up to Michelet 26, three, uh, Schultz, uh, um, Schultz, the Seuss message, like a more, uh, These are all weird words.

Not all weird words, but how do you translate it there?

An initial translation?

Well, we've got here, a shot is a scourge or a whip.

Which, by the way, I did not know that scourge...

I don't know if scourge is etymologically related to whip.

I thought scourge was like a plague.

But maybe plague is the figurative version and scourge is the literal one.

So anyway, a whip for a horse, or literally for the horse.

Messig, anyone know what a messig is? Other than the tommy? Or the thing? So a messig is a bridle.

A bridle for the donkey, or donkey as some New Yorkers say.

The shave it, legave, seal him.

And what's a shave it? yeah rod or staff yeah so i would say here uh probably oh club that's okay so a uh a rod probably is better because i feel like rod is more association with associated with punishment in english uh oh sorry it's and a rod for the gave ceiling was it gave A back? A back.

Literally for the back.

I guess for a back of fools.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's see what the minimalist Mepharsim say here.

So we've got Matustion who says, So he says a shot is a scepter or a rod, okay? Okay, I don't know if that is some sort of definitive.

I mean, it's fine.

The Claude translated it as the sound of a whip, okay? But staves don't make sounds.

Like, I mean, I don't know.

Sharvi, though, means like a king's scepter.

I just don't know why he's going with that.

Okay, mesig is ukein resen asui lahanigbo b'mesig.

So I think that is a bridle, okay? Claude said a halter.