John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
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 feet before he sends him, or send a man without feet, as such an one; for prudence,...