Proverbs 26:6 (BSB)

Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

From Proverbs 26. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 26:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 26:6-9: To recommend wisdom to us, and to quicken us to the diligent use of all the means for the getting of wisdom, Solomon here shows that fools are fit for nothing; they are either sottish men, who will never think and design at all, or vicious men, who will never think and design well. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 26:6: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool,.... Who knows not how to deliver it in a proper manner, and is incapable of taking the answer, and reporting it as he should; or unfaithful in it, and brings a bad or false report, as the spies did upon the good land; cutteth off the feet; he may as well cut off his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 26:6: A fool fails by folly as surely as if he were maimed. drinketh damage--that is, gets it abundantly (Job 15:16; Job 34:7).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 26:6: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage. (c) That is, of the messenger whom he sends. (d) That is, receives damage by it.