Proverbs 25:8 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 25:8

do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?

BSB

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ASV

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.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Go 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.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

(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." 9, 10. (Compare Mt 5:25, Margin). secret--that is, of your opponent, for his disadvantage, and so you be disgraced, not having discussed your difficulties with him.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תֵּצֵ֥א	te.Tze'	you go forth	H3318 →
לָרִ֗ב	la.Riv	to contest a lawsuit	H7378 →
מַ֫הֵ֥ר	ma.Her	quickly	H4118 →
פֶּ֣ן	pen	lest	H6435 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
תַּ֭עֲשֶׂה	Ta.'a.seh	will you do	H6213 →
בְּאַחֲרִיתָ֑הּ	be.'a.cha.ri.Tah	at end its	H319 →
בְּהַכְלִ֖ים	be.hakh.Lim	when puts to shame	H3637 →
אֹתְךָ֣	'o.te.Kha	<obj.> you	H853 →
רֵעֶֽךָ׃	re.'E.kha	neighbor your	H7453 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
leads to
- Proverbs 16:25
  There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Matthew 7:13–14
  Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- Proverbs 12:15
  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
- Galatians 6:3
  If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Luke 13:24
  “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Through
Matthew 5:25
Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and…
leads to
- Luke 12:58–59
  Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to…
- Hebrews 3:13
  But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
- Luke 14:31–32
  Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Proverbs