A real good is wisdom above weapons of fight: but a single erring sinner destroys this good very much.
(18.) A good (repeated, so that it corroborates what is found in verse 16) is wisdom above weapons of an encounter, and sinning once (in the sense of making a wicked mistake, or ‘one wicked mistaker,’ either person or thing) destroys good the much.
CHAPTER X.
DEAD [¹]flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
[¹] Hebrew Flies of death.
ONE of a swarm of blow-flies tainting corrupts the confectioner’s conserve, and esteemed above reason and above reputation too is of false prudence——just a little.