Proverbs 20:3 It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

Proverbs 20:3

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New International Version (©1984)
It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man, But any fool will quarrel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Avoiding a quarrel is honorable. After all, any stubborn fool can start a fight.

King James Bible
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

American King James Version
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

American Standard Version
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

Bible in Basic English
It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches.

Darby Bible Translation
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.

English Revised Version
It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife: but every fool will be quarrelling.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

World English Bible
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

Young's Literal Translation
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

Geneva Study Bible

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

20:3 Meddling - Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. to cease from strife-or, better, "to dwell from or without strife," denoting the habit of life.

fool . meddling-(Pr 17:14).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:1 It seems hard to believe that men of the greatest abilities, as well as the ignorant, should render themselves fools and madmen, merely for the taste or excitement produced by strong liquors. 2. How formidable kings are to those who provoke them! how much more foolish then is it to provoke the King of kings! 3. To engage in quarrels is the greatest folly that can be. Yield, and even give up just demands, for peace' sake. 4. He who labours and endures hardship in his seed-time for eternity, will be properly diligent as to his earthly business.

Genesis 13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.

Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out. (NASB ©1995)

Aloof Avoid Cease Cessation Fighting Fool Foolish Honor Honour Intermeddleth Keeping Meddling Quarrel Quarreling Quarrelling Quick Rusheth Snarling Strife War

Aloof Avoid Cease Cessation Fighting Fool Foolish Honor Honour Intermeddleth Keeping Meddling Quarrel Quarreling Quarrelling Quick Rusheth Snarling Strife War

Aloof Avoid Cease Cessation Fighting Fool Foolish Honor Honour Intermeddleth Keeping Meddling Quarrel Quarreling Quarrelling Quick Rusheth Snarling Strife War

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

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