PRO 26:18 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Ὥσπερ οἱ ἰώμενοι προβάλλουσι λόγους εἰς ἀνθρώπους, ὁ δὲ ἀπαντήσας τῷ λόγῳ πρῶτος ὑποσκελισθήσεται·
(Hōsper hoi iōmenoi proballousi logous eis anthrōpous, ho de apantaʸsas tōi logōi prōtos huposkelisthaʸsetai; )

BrTr As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

UST People who trick people they know
⇔ and say that they were just joking are as dangerous
⇔ as a crazy person who uses a bow to shoot flaming darks or deadly arrows at people.

OEB Like a madman who hurls about
⇔ deadly fire-brands and arrows,

WEBBE Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Like a madman who shoots
⇔ firebrands and deadly arrows,

LSV As [one] pretending to be feeble,
Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

FBV You're like a crazy person firing off blazing arrows and killing people

T4T ⇔ Crazy people who shoot burning arrows to kill people

LEB • firebrands, arrows, and death,

BBE As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

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JPS As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

ASV As a madman who casteth firebrands,
⇔ Arrows, and death,

DRA As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death:

YLT As [one] pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

Drby As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

RV As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

Wbstr As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death,

KJB-1769 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,[fn]

26.18 firebrands: Heb. flames, or, sparks

KJB-1611 [fn]As a mad man, who casteth firebrands, arrowes, and death:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

26:18 Heb. flames or sparkes.

Bshps As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes:
(As he that fayneth himself mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrows and dartes:)

Gnva As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,
(As he that faineth himself mad, casteth fire brands, arrows, and mortall things, )

Cvdl Like as one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes out of a preuy place, euen so doth a dyssembler with his neghboure,
(Like as one shuteth deadly arrows and dartes out of a preuy place, even so doth a dyssembler with his neighbour,)

Wycl As he is gilti, that sendith speris and arowis in to deth;
(As he is gilti, that sendeth/sends speris and arowis in to death;)

Luth Wie einer heimlich mit Geschoß und Pfeilen schießt und tötet,
(How einer heimlich with Geschoß and Pfeilen schießt and tötet,)

ClVg Sicut noxius est qui mittit sagittas et lanceas in mortem,
(Sicut noxius it_is who mittit sagittas and lanceas in mortem, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

כְּֽ֭⁠מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ הַ⁠יֹּרֶ֥ה זִקִּ֗ים חִצִּ֥ים וָ⁠מָֽוֶת

like,madman the,throws firebrands arrows and,deadly

Like in this verse and so in the next verse indicate that Solomon is comparing an insane one who shoots arrows, firebrands, and death with a man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Was I not joking?” The point is that these are harmful and dangerous acts. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this more explicit. Alternate translation: “Just as an insane one who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death is reckless”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys

חִצִּ֥ים וָ⁠מָֽוֶת

arrows and,deadly

The two words arrows and death express a single idea. The word death describes a characteristic of the arrows. If it would be more natural in your language, you could express this meaning in a different way. Alternate translation: “and arrows that kill”

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