Lame

Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools. Proverbs 26:7 ESV

One thing Solomon can't be accused of, is political correctness. Nowadays, this proverb would be described as "ableist" or whatever the correct term is for discrimination against disabled people. But I suspect an actual disabled person would declare Solomon's analogy to be a fair comment. 

Often, on the issue of disability, it's the elephant in the room. Able bodied people tiptoe around the subject, afraid to offend. But I suspect a wheelchair bound man would hold his hands up at this proverb and acknowledge the truth of what Solomon said. 

Solomon isn't judging the disabled. He's not calling them any less worthy of respect as anyone else. He's just calling out disability for the inconvenience and uselessness it is, for the disabled as much as anyone. 

I hope, having embarked on this endeavour to reflect on every single proverb, this particular proverb isn't true of me! Sadly, some people do mangle God's word. For example, there was the sadly deceased "Christian" blogger who thought she had to live on the corner of a roof because of a faulty reading of a proverb. 

"God of the Word, may we hold Your truth in the highest esteem and not mangle it in the name of political correctness. Let us rightly handle Your word of truth, for Your name's sake, amen"