Verse List for PROV 21:22

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OET (OET-RV) A wise man can climb up into a city of warriors, ⇔ → and bring down the strength of its confidence.

OET-LV A _city _of warriors he _goes _up a _wise_person and_he _brought _down the_strength _of its _confidence _of_her.

ULT A wise, one ascends a city of mighty ones, ⇔ and he brings down the strength of its confidence.

UST Wise people know how to conquer cities that mighty warriors are defending; ⇔  they can pull down the walls that people in those cities believe will protect them.

BSB & MSB A wise [man] scales the city of the mighty ⇔  and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB A wise man scales the city of the mighty, ⇔  and brings down the strength of its confidence.

NET The wise person can scale the city of the mighty ⇔ and bring down the stronghold in which they trust.

LSV The wise has gone up a city of the mighty,
And brings down the strength of its confidence.

FBV The wise can overcome a city belonging to strong warriors, and tear down the fortress they trusted to protect them.

T4T ⇔  A wise army commander helps his troops climb over a wall to attack a city that is defended by a strong army, ⇔  with the result that they are able to ◄get over/destroy► the high walls that their enemies trusted would protect them.

LEB • To a city of warriors, the wise ascends,
• and he will bring down the stronghold—its object of trust.

BBE A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

Moff A clever man can scale a mighty city, ⇔  and lay the vaunted stronghold low.

JPS A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and bringeth down the stronghold wherein it trusteth.

ASV A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, ⇔ And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

DRA The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

YLT A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

Drby A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

RV A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
(A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and bringeth/brings down the strength of the confidence thereof.)

SLT The wise one ascended the city of the strong, and he will bring down the strength of its confidence.

Wbstr A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of its confidence.

KJB-1769 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
(A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth/casts/throws down the strength of the confidence thereof.)

KJB-1611 A wise man scaleth the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps A wyse man skaleth the citie of the mightie, & ouerthroweth the strength wherein they trusted.
(A wise man skaleth the city of the mighty, and overthroweth/overthrew the strength wherein they trusted.)

Gnva A wise man goeth vp into the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.
(A wise man goeth/goes up into the city of the mighty, and casteth/casts/throws down the strength of the confidence thereof.)

Cvdl A wyse man wynneth the cite of the mightie, and as for the strength yt they trust in, he bryngeth it downe.
(A wise man winneth/wins the cite of the mighty, and as for the strength it they trust in, he bringeth/brings it down.)

Wycl A wijs man stiede `in to the citee of stronge men, and distriede the strengthe of trist therof.
(A wise man stayed in to the city of strong men, and destroyed the strength of trist thereof.)

Luth Ein Weiser gewinnet die Stadt der Starken und stürzet ihre Macht durch ihre Sicherheit.
(A wise_(man) wins/gains(v) the city the/of_the strong_(ones) and fallst their/her power(n) through their/her Sicherheit.)

ClVg Civitatem fortium ascendit sapiens, et destruxit robur fiduciæ ejus.[fn]
(Civitatem of_the_brave went_up wise, and destroyed strength fiduciæ his/her.)

UHB עִ֣יר גִּ֭בֹּרִים עָלָ֣ה חָכָ֑ם וַ֝⁠יֹּ֗רֶד עֹ֣ז מִבְטֶחָֽ⁠ה׃ ‡

BrLXX Πόλεις ὀχυρὰς ἐπέβη σοφὸς, καὶ καθεῖλε τὸ ὀχύρωμα ἐφʼ ᾧ ἐπεποίθεισαν οἱ ἀσεβεῖς.

BrTr A wise man assaults strong cities, and demolishes the fortress in which the ungodly trusted.