Proverbs 26:10

The great God. There has been much controversy over the meaning of this verse. The Hebrew word for “great” may mean “archer” or possibly “arrow” (see Jer. 50:29) and that for “formed” may mean “wounded.” Hence the verse may be rendered, “An arrow which wounds everyone is he who hires a fool and he who hires passers-by.” The intended lesson seems to be that the employment of fools and incompetent people will endanger the employer as well as those he employs, even as a poisoned arrow endangers those who use it as well as those at whom it is shot.