SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:26
¶ El rey sabio esparce los impíos; y sobre ellos hace rodar la rueda.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:26
Verse 26. Bringeth the wheel over them. ] He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing- floor. Every one knows that grain was separated from its husks, in Palestine, by the feet of the oxen trampling among the sheaves, or bringing a rough-shod wheel over them. Asiatic kings often threshed their people, to bring out their property; but this is not what is intended here.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. A wise king scattereth the wicked , etc.] Or “fans [them] away” f564 ; separates them from his good counsellors, courtiers, and subjects; scatters them from his presence and court, and breaks their counsels and confederacies one with another; he discovers, discountenances, and discourages them; (see Gill on “ Proverbs 20:8”); and bringeth the wheel over them ; alluding to the custom of the eastern nations turning a cart wheel over the grain in threshing it out, and agreeably to the metaphor in the preceding clause; (see Isaiah 28:27,28). Though some think it refers to a sort of punishment inflicted on malefactors in those times and countries, by putting them under harrows drawn on wheels, as breaking upon the wheel has been since used; see ( 2 Samuel 12:31). The Arabic version understands it of exile. Jarchi interprets the wise king of the Lord, and the wicked of Pharaoh and his host, on whom he brought the wheel, or gave measure for measure, and punished in a way of retaliation; and to this sense it is by some f565 interpreted, “as the wheel turns over, just in the same place, so as the wicked hath done, it shall be done to them.”
It may be applied to Christ, the wise King, who scatters all his and our enemies; whose fan is in his hand, and he wilt thoroughly purge his floor, ( Matthew 3:12).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26 - Justice should crush the wicked, and separate them from the virtuous.
Original Hebrew
מזרה 2219 רשׁעים 7563 מלך 4428 חכם 2450 וישׁב 7725 עליהם 5921 אופן׃ 212
