Proverbs 25:8
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New International Version (©1984)
do not bring hastily to court, for what will you do in the end if your neighbor puts you to shame?

New Living Translation (©2007)
don't be in a hurry to go to court. For what will you do in the end if your neighbor deals you a shameful defeat?

English Standard Version (©2001)
do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do not go out hastily to argue your case; Otherwise, what will you do in the end, When your neighbor humiliates you?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do not be in a hurry to go to court. What will you do in the end if your neighbor disgraces you?

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

American Standard Version
Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

Bible in Basic English
Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Douay-Rheims Bible
The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest after- ward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

World English Bible
Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Young's Literal Translation
Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. (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."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:1-3 God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honour of rulers to search out matters, to bring to light hidden works of darkness. 4,5. For a prince to suppress vice, and reform his people, is the best way to support his government. 6,7. Religion teaches us humility and self-denial. He who has seen the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus, will feel his own unworthiness. 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. 11,12. A word of counsel, or reproof, rightly spoken, is especially beautiful, as fine fruit becomes still more beautiful in silver baskets. 13. See what ought to be the aim of him that is trusted with any business; to be faithful. A faithful minister, Christ's messenger, should be thus acceptable to us. 14. He who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, is like the morning cloud, that disappoints those who look for rain. 15. Be patient to bear a present hurt. Be mild to speak without passion; for persuasive language is the most effectual to prevail over the hardened mind. 16. God has given us leave to use grateful things, but we are cautioned against excess.


Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
Matthew 5:25 "Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. (NASB ©1995)

Argue Blush Case Causeth Charges Court End Forth Haste Hastily Hasty Humiliates Neighbor Neighbour Otherwise Puts Quick Shame Shames Strive Thereof Turn

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.

hastily 17:14 18:6 30:33 2Sa 2:14-16,26 2Ki 14:8-12 Lu 14:31,32

what 14:12 Jer 5:31 Mt 5:25

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