| Proverbs 20:3 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man, But any fool will quarrel. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Avoiding a quarrel is honorable. After all, any stubborn fool can start a fight.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| ASV: | It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling. |
| BBE: | It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war. |
| DBY: | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it. |
| ERV: | It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife: but every fool will be quarrelling. |
| JPS: | It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be snarling. |
| WBS: | It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| WEB: | It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling. |
| YLT: | An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth. |
| Proverbs 20:3 Cross References |
| XREF: | Genesis 13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 20:3 Meddling - Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it. |
| MHC: | 20:1 It seems hard to believe that men of the greatest abilities, as well as the ignorant, should render themselves fools and madmen, merely for the taste or excitement produced by strong liquors. 2. How formidable kings are to those who provoke them! how much more foolish then is it to provoke the King of kings! 3. To engage in quarrels is the greatest folly that can be. Yield, and even give up just demands, for peace' sake. 4. He who labours and endures hardship in his seed-time for eternity, will be properly diligent as to his earthly business. |
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