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Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

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ASV

As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.

KJV

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כַּצִּפּ֣וֹרka.tzi.Porlike <the> birdH6833 →
לָ֭נוּדLa.nudfor flutteringH5110 →
כַּדְּר֣וֹרka.de.Rorlike <the> swallowH1866 →
לָע֑וּףla.'Uffor flyingH5774 →
כֵּ֥ןkensoH3651 →
קִֽלְלַ֥תki.Lata curseH7045 →
חִ֝נָּ֗םchi.Namwithout causeH2600 →
ל֣וֹloto him
תָבֹֽא׃ta.Vo'it will comeH935 →

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Numbers 23:8How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?Nehemiah 13:2because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).Psalms 109:28Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.Deuteronomy 23:4–5For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”1 Samuel 17:43“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.Proverbs 27:8Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.1 Samuel 14:28–29Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”Deuteronomy 23:5Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.Deuteronomy 18:22When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.Numbers 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’Ezekiel 14:23They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.2 Corinthians 13:8For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.2 Samuel 16:5As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.Numbers 22:6So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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