Verse List for PROV 26:12

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OET (OET-RV) Do you see a person who thinks they’re clever? ⇔ There’s more hope for a fool than for that person.

OET-LV You _see a _person wise in_his _own _of_eyes hope belongs_to_a _fool more_than _him.

ULT You see a man wise in his eyes. ⇔ There is more hope for a stupid, one than for him.

UST Consider this: Foolish people are more likely to learn ⇔  than people who wrongly think that they are already wise.

BSB & MSB Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? ⇔  There is more hope for a fool than for him.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? ⇔  There is more hope for a fool than for him.

NET Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? ⇔ There is more hope for a fool than for him.

LSV You have seen a man wise in his own eyes,
More hope of a fool than of him!

FBV Have you seen a man who is wise in his own eyes? There's more hope for stupid people than for him!

T4T ⇔  God can help/bless foolish people more easily ⇔  than he can help/bless people who are not wise [RHQ], but think that they are wise.

LEB • Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
• There is more hope for a fool than for him.

BBE Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

Moff You see a man of self-conceit ⇔  More hope for a fool than for him!

JPS Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

ASV Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? ⇔ There is more hope of a fool than of him.

DRA Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

YLT Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

Drby Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

RV Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
(Seest/See thou/you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.)

SLT Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.

Wbstr Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

KJB-1769 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
(Seest/See thou/you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.)

KJB-1611 Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceit? there is more hope of a foole then of him.
(Seest/See thou/you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool then of him.)

Bshps If thou seest a man that is wise in his owne conceipt: there is more hope in a foole, then in hym.
(If thou/you seest/see a man that is wise in his own conceit: there is more hope in a fool, then in him.)

Gnva Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceite? more hope is of a foole then of him.
(Seest/See thou/you a man wise in his own conceite? more hope is of a fool then of him.)

Cvdl Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.
(If thou/you seyest a man it is wise in his own conceit, there is more hope in a fool then in hi.)

Wycl Thou hast seyn a man seme wijs to hym silf; an vnkunnyng man schal haue hope more than he.
(Thou/You hast seen a man seem wise to himself; an uncunning/uneducated man shall have hope more than he.)

Luth Wenn du einen siehest, der sich weise dünket, da ist an einem Narren mehr Hoffnung denn an ihm.
(When you(sg) a see/look, the/of_the itself/yourself/themselves wise seems, there is at/to on fool(n) more hope(n) because/than at/to him.)

ClVg Vidisti hominem sapientem sibi videri? magis illo spem habebit insipiens.][fn]
(You_saw man wise to_himself to_seem? more that/there hope will_have stupid.])

UHB רָאִ֗יתָ אִ֭ישׁ חָכָ֣ם בְּ⁠עֵינָ֑י⁠ו תִּקְוָ֖ה לִ⁠כְסִ֣יל מִמֶּֽ⁠נּוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Εἶδον ἄνδρα δόξαντα παρʼ αὐτῷ σοφὸν εἶναι, ἐλπίδα μέντοι ἔσχε μᾶλλον ἄφρων αὐτοῦ.

BrTr I have seen a man who seemed [fn]to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.