Proverbs 26:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes:

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 49:23 : 23 The archers haue greeuously prouoked hym, and shot him through with dartes, they haue hated him to his hinderaunce.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.
  • Isa 50:11 : 11 But take heede, ye all kindle a fire, and stirre vp the coales: walke on in the glisteryng of your owne fire, and in the coales that ye haue kindled: This commeth vnto you from my hande namely that ye shall sleepe in sorowe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 26:19
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    19So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?

  • Prov 26:21
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    21As coles kindle heate, and wood the fire: euen so doth a brawling felowe stirre vp variaunce.

  • Prov 26:17
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    17Who so goeth by and medleth with other mens strife: he is like one that taketh a dogge by the eares.

  • Prov 25:18
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    18Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22An angry man stirreth vp strife, and he that beareth euyll will in his mynde doth much euyll.

  • Prov 14:16-17
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    16A wyse man feareth, and departeth from euyll: but the foole is angry, and counteth hym selfe sure.

    17An vnpatient man dealeth foolishly: but he that is well aduised, is hated of the foole.

  • Prov 16:27-30
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    75%

    27An vngodly person stirreth vp euyll, and in his lippes he is as an hotte burnyng fyre.

    28A frowarde body causeth strife: and he that is a blabbe of his tongue maketh deuision among princes.

    29A wicked man beguyleth his neyghbour, and leadeth hym into the way that is not good:

    30He shutteth his eyes to deuise mischiefe: and moueth his lippes to bryng euyll to passe.

  • Prov 26:8-9
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    73%

    8He that setteth a foole in hye dignitie, that is euen as if a man would bynde a stone in a sling.

    9As is a thorne in the hande of a drunkarde: so is a parable in a fooles mouth.

  • Job 5:2
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    2As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18An angry man stirreth vp strife: but he that is patient stylleth discorde.

  • Eccl 10:13
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    13The beginning of his talking is foolishnesse: & the last worde of his mouth is starke madnesse.

  • Ps 64:3
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    3Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.

  • Ps 120:4
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    4So much as sharpe arrowes of a strong man in thy sydes: with Iuniper coales powred on thy head.

  • Prov 7:23
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    23So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For vngodlynesse burneth as a fire, and shall deuour bryers and thornes, and it shall burne as in the thicket of a wood, and the wicked aduaunce them selues, as the smoke is caryed vp.

  • Prov 26:27
    72%

    27Who so diggeth vp a pit, shal fall therin: and he that rolleth vp a stone, it wyl returne vpon hym.

  • Eccl 10:9
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    9Who so remoueth stones, shall haue trauayle withall: and he that heweth wood, shalbe hurt therwith.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18He that hydeth hatred with lying lippes, and he that speaketh slaunder, is a foole.

  • Prov 26:6
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    6As he that cutteth of his messengers feete endamageth himselfe: so doth he that committeth a message to a foole.

  • Prov 6:27
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    27May a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent?

  • Prov 18:6
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    6A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.

  • Prov 22:24
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    24Make no frendship with an angrye wylfull man, and walke not with the furious:

  • Prov 17:18-19
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    18Who so promiseth by the hande and is suretie for his neighbour, he is a foole.

    19He that delighteth in sinne, loueth strife: and who so setteth his doore to hye, seeketh destruction.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and hym that soweth discorde among brethren.

  • Prov 16:14
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    14The kinges displeasure is a messenger of death: but a wise man wyll pacifie hym.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes.

  • Prov 26:3-4
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    71%

    3Unto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a brydle: and a rod to the fooles backe.

    4Geue not the foole an aunswere after his foolishnes, lest thou become like vnto him.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23A foole doth wickedly, and maketh but a sport of it: but wisdome ruleth the man that hath vnderstandyng.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For whyles the thornes cleaue together, and whyles they banquet out their feastes, they are deuoured vp as very drie stubble.

  • Num 35:20
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    20But if he thrust hym of hate, or hurle at hym by laying of wayte, that he dye,

  • Ps 62:3
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    3Howe long wyll ye imagine mischiefe against euery man? ye shalbe slayne all the sort of you: ye shalbe as a tottering wall, and like a broken hedge.

  • Job 6:26
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    26Do ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted shoulde be as the winde?

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.

  • Num 35:22-23
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    70%

    22But if he pusshed hym vnaduisedly, and not of hate, or cast vpon hym any thing, and not in laying of wayte,

    23Or any maner of stone that a man may dye with, and saw him not, and he caused it to fall vpon hym, and he dye, and was not his enemie, neither sought hym any harme:

  • Job 34:26
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    26The vngodly doth he punishe openly,

  • Ps 140:10
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    10Let hotte coales be burnyng vpon them: he wyll cast them downe into the fire into deepe pittes, that they may neuer rise vp agayne.

  • Prov 17:11
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    11A seditious person seketh mischiefe, and a cruell messenger shalbe sent agaynst hym.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9If a wise man contendeth with a foole: whether he be angry or laugh, there is no rest.

  • Jer 25:16
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    16That when they haue drunken therof, they may be madde and out of their wittes, when the sworde commeth that I wyll sende among them.