Worst metaphors in the Bible?
Favorite Answer
Jesus to the crowd in the Sermon on the Mount:
“How can you possibly tell your brother, “I think a see a little speck in your eye,” when you have a log sticking out of your own eye?”
– Matthew 7:3
Jesus to the Pharisees who kept the man-made rules of the Mishnah but not God’s commandments in the Torah:
“You blind guides! You strain the gnats out of your soup [the gnat is an insect that is not kosher and should not be eaten], and then you swallow a whole camel!”
– Matthew 23:24
This, however, is quite a good one and does makes sense:
“If you meddle in a quarrel between two other people, you will end up like somebody who has picked up a mad dog by the ears.”
– Proverbs 26:17
I like many of these little ones:
http://www.geocities.com/bible_translation/otidioms.htm
Especially: “Their throat is an open grave = they speak deceitfully”
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