George Leo Haydock, on Prov 26:9

“As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.”

“If. Hebrew, “ as a thorn goeth up into the,” &c. (Protestants) (Haydock) — 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. (Haydock)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.