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Proverbs 25:8
8Do not rush out to argue your case [before magistrates or judges]; Otherwise what will you do in the end [when your case is lost and] When your neighbor (opponent) humiliates you?
Proverbs 25:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
- New International Version (NIV)do not bring hastily to court, for what will you do in the end if your neighbor puts you to shame?
- English Standard Version (ESV)do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not go hastily to court; For what will you do in the end, When your neighbor has put you to shame?
Context of Proverbs 25:8
6Do not be boastfully ambitious and claim honor in the presence of the king, And do not stand in the place of great men; 7For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,” Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen. Do not rush out to argue your case [before magistrates or judges]; Otherwise what will you do in the end [when your case is lost and] When your neighbor (opponent) humiliates you? 9Argue your case with your neighbor himself [before you go to court]; And do not reveal another’s secret, 10Or he who hears it will shame you And the rumor about you [and your action in court] will have no end.
Read all of Proverbs 25Proverbs 25:8 word by word
אַל־תֵּצֵ֥א לָרִ֗ב מַ֫הֵ֥ר פֶּ֣ן מַה־תַּ֭עֲשֶׂה בְּאַחֲרִיתָ֑הּ בְּהַכְלִ֖ים אֹתְךָ֣ רֵעֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Go not forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
- hastilyמַהֵרmahêr · quicklyH4118
- to striveרִיבrîyb rûb · to contendH7378
- what to doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- in the endאַחֲרִית'achărîyth · endH319
- thereof, when thy neighbourרֵעַrêa‛ rêya‛ · neighborH7453
- hath put thee to shameכָּלַםkâlam · be humiliatedH3637
Cross-references for Proverbs 25:8
- Proverbs 17:14The beginning of strife is like letting out water [as from a small break in a dam; first it trickles and then it gushes]; Therefore abandon the quarrel before it breaks out and tempers explode.
- Proverbs 18:6A fool’s lips bring contention and strife, And his mouth invites a beating.
- Proverbs 30:33Surely the churning of milk produces butter, And wringing the nose produces blood; So the churning of anger produces strife.
- 2 Samuel 2:14Then Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men now stand and have a contest before us.” And Joab said, “Let them stand.”
- 2 Kings 14:8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash (Joash) the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face each other [in combat].”
- Luke 14:31Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?
- Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, But its end is the way of death.
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love [to have] it so! But what will you do when the end comes?
- Matthew 5:25Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison.
Commentaries on Proverbs 25:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Go not forth hastily to strive - לרב lerib, to enter into a lawsuit. Keep from this pit or the bottomless deep, unless urged by the direst necessity.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8The general meaning is: It is dangerous to plunge into litigation. At all times, there is the risk of failure, and, if we fail, of being at the mercy of an irritated adversary. Without the italics, the clause may be rendered, “lest thou do something (i. e., something humiliating and vexatious) at the end thereof.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-10Verses 8-10 To be hasty in beginning strife, will bring into difficulties. War must at length end, and might better be prevented. It is so in private quarrels; do all thou canst to settle the matter.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. (Compare Pr 3:30). lest ... shame--lest you do what you ought not, when shamed by defeat, or "lest thou art shut out from doing any thing."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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