Verse List for PROV 26:6

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OET (OET-RV) Sending a fool with your message to pass on ⇔ is like cutting off your feet and drinking in violence.

OET-LV one _who_cuts _off feet violence one _who_drinks one _who_sends words/messages by_the_hand _of a _fool.

ULT One cutting off feet, one drinking violence, ⇔ is one sending words by the hand of a stupid, one.

UST Anyone who asks a foolish person to take a message to someone ⇔  is doing something as foolish as cutting off his own feet or drinking poison.

BSB & MSB Like cutting off one ’s own feet or drinking violence ⇔  is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB One who sends a message by the hand of a fool ⇔  is cutting off feet and drinking violence.

NET Like cutting off the feet or drinking violence, ⇔ so is sending a message by the hand of a fool.

LSV He is cutting off feet, he is drinking injury,
Who is sending things by the hand of a fool.

FBV Trusting someone stupid to deliver a message is like cutting off your feet or drinking poison.

T4T ⇔  Anyone who asks a foolish person to take a message to someone ⇔  is himself doing something as foolish as cutting off his own feet ⇔  or drinking poison.

LEB • Like cutting off feet or drinking violence,
• so is he who sends messages in the hand of a fool.

BBE He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.

Moff To send a fool with a messag ⇔  is to cut off your own feet--injuring yourself.

JPS He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh damage.

ASV He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool ⇔ Cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.

DRA He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.

YLT He is cutting off feet, he is drinking injury, Who is sending things by the hand of a fool.

Drby He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off [his own] feet, [and] drinketh damage.

RV He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.
(He that sendeth/sends a message by the hand of a fool cutteth/cuts off his own feet, and drinketh/drinks in damage.)

SLT He drank violence, cutting off the feet, sending words by the hand of the foolish one.

Wbstr He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

KJB-1769 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.[fn]
(He that sendeth/sends a message by the hand of a fool cutteth/cuts off the feet, and drinketh/drinks damage.)

KJB-1611 [fn]He that sendeth a message by the hand of a foole, cutteth off the feete, and drinketh dammage.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps As he that cutteth of his messengers feete endamageth himselfe: so doth he that committeth a message to a foole.
(As he that cutteth/cuts of his messengers feet endamageth himself: so doeth/does he that committeth/commits a message to a fool.)

Gnva He that sendeth a message by the hand of a foole, is as he that cutteth off the feete, and drinketh iniquitie.
(He that sendeth/sends a message by the hand of a fool, is as he that cutteth/cuts off the feet, and drinketh/drinks iniquity.)

Cvdl He is lame of his fete, yee droncken is he in vanite, that comitteth eny thinge to a foole.
(He is lame of his feet, ye/you_all drunken is he in vanity, that committeth/commits anything to a fool.)

Wycl An haltinge man in feet, and drinkinge wickidnesse, he that sendith wordis by a fonned messanger.
(An haltinge man in feet, and drinkinge wickedness, he that sendeth/sends words by a foolish messenger.)

Luth Wer eine Sache durch einen törichten Boten ausrichtet, der ist wie ein Lahmer an Füßen und nimmt Schaden.
(Who a/one matter through a foolish messenger aligns, the/of_the is as/like a Lahmer at/to feet and takes damage/harm(n).)

ClVg Claudus pedibus, et iniquitatem bibens, qui mittit verba per nuntium stultum.[fn]
(Claudus feet, and iniquity drinking, who/which sends words through nuntium stupidity.)

UHB מְקַצֶּ֣ה רַ֭גְלַיִם חָמָ֣ס שֹׁתֶ֑ה שֹׁלֵ֖חַ דְּבָרִ֣ים בְּ⁠יַד־כְּסִֽיל׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐκ τῶν ὁδῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὄνειδος ποιεῖται ὁ ἀποστείλας διʼ ἀγγέλου ἄφρονος λόγον.

BrTr He that sends a message by a foolish messenger procures for himself a reproach from his own ways.