Verse List for PROV 26:17

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OET (OET-RV) The person who gets angry about a quarrel that’s nothing to do with them, ⇔ is like someone grabbing the ears of a dog that’s passing by.

OET-LV one _who_takes _hold on_the_ears _of a _dog one _who_passes _by who_becomes _furious on a _dispute which_not to_him/it.

ULT One grabbing the ears of a dog passing by ⇔ is one infuriating himself over a dispute not for him.

UST People who make themselves angry because of an argument that does not concern them ⇔  are as foolish as people who grab the ears of a dog that is passing by.

BSB & MSB Like one who grabs a dog by the ears ⇔  is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Like one who grabs a dog’s ears ⇔  is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

NET Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, ⇔ so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

LSV Laying hold on the ears of a dog,
[Is] a passer-by making himself wrath for strife [that is] not his own.

FBV Interfering in someone else's quarrel is like grabbing a stray dog by the ears.

T4T ⇔  Anyone who ◄meddles/involves himself► in a quarrel that does not concern him ⇔  is as foolish as [SIM] someone who tries to grab a passing dog by its ears.

LEB • Grabbing onto the ears of a dog
• passing by is one who meddles in a quarrel that is not his own.

BBE He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.

Moff He catches a passing dog by the ears ⇔  who meddles with a quarrel not his own.

JPS He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife not his own, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

ASV He that passeth by, and vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, ⇔ Is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

DRA As he that taketh a dog by the ears, so is he that passeth by in anger, and meddleth with another man’s quarrel.

YLT Laying hold on the ears of a dog, [Is] a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

Drby He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is [like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.

RV He that passeth by, and vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
(He that passeth/passes by, and vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh/takes a dog by the ears.)

SLT Laying hold upon the ears of a dog, he passing by overflowing upon strife not to him.

Wbstr He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

KJB-1769 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.[fn]
(He that passeth/passes by, and meddleth/meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh/takes a dog by the ears.)

KJB-1611 [fn]He that passeth by, and medleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the eares.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps Who so goeth by and medleth with other mens strife: he is like one that taketh a dogge by the eares.
(Whoso/Whoever goeth/goes by and meddleth/meddles with other men’s strife: he is like one that taketh/takes a dog by the ears.)

Gnva He that passeth by and medleth with the strife that belongeth not vnto him, is as one that taketh a dog by the eares.
(He that passeth/passes by and meddleth/meddles with the strife that belongeth/belongs not unto him, is as one that taketh/takes a dog by the ears.)

Cvdl Who so goeth by and medleth with other mens strife, he is like one yt taketh a dogg by ye eares.
(Whoso/Whoever goeth/goes by and meddleth/meddles with other men’s strife, he is like one it taketh/takes a dog by ye/you_all ears.)

Wycl As he that takith a dogge bi the eeris; so he that passith, and is vnpacient, and is meddlid with the chiding of anothir man.
(As he that taketh/takes a dog by the ears; so he that passeth/passes, and is unpacient, and is meddled with the chiding of another man.)

Luth Wer vorgehet und sich menget in fremden Hader, der ist wie einer, der den Hund bei den Ohren zwacket.
(Who before/in_front_ofgehet and itself/yourself/themselves mixed in strangers discord/discontentment, the/of_the is as/like one/a, the/of_the the Hund at/in the ears zwacket.)

ClVg [Sicut qui apprehendit auribus canem, sic qui transit impatiens et commiscetur rixæ alterius.[fn]
([Like who/which apprehends in_the_ears canem, so who/which transit impatiens and commixed rixæ another’s.)

UHB מַחֲזִ֥יק בְּ⁠אָזְנֵי־כָ֑לֶב עֹבֵ֥ר מִ֝תְעַבֵּ֗ר עַל־רִ֥יב לֹּֽא־לֽ⁠וֹ׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὥσπερ ὁ κρατῶν κέρκου κυνὸς, οὕτως ὁ προεστὼς ἀλλοτρίας κρίσεως.

BrTr As he that lays hold of a dog's tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another's cause.