Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
removeth stones—namely, of an ancient building [WEISS]. His neighbor's landmarks [HOLDEN]. Cuts out from the quarry [MAURER].
endangered—by the splinters, or by the head of the hatchet, flying back on himself. Pithy aphorisms are common in the East. The sense is: Violations of true wisdom recoil on the perpetrators.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ecclesiastes 10:9:
Ecclesiastes 10:10
Ecclesiastes 10:11
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