Proverbs 26:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

As the bird by wandering, and the swallow by flying, so a cause-less curse shall not come.

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  • Num 23:8 : 8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.
  • Neh 13:2 : 2 because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
  • Ps 109:28 : 28 Let them curse, but you bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.
  • Prov 27:8 : 8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.
  • Deut 23:4-5 : 4 Because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way, when you came out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.
  • 1 Sam 14:28-29 : 28 Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today.'" And the people were faint. 29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. See, my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
  • 1 Sam 17:43 : 43 The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 10:20
    72%

    20Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

  • Prov 27:8
    71%

    8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

  • Prov 1:17
    71%

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

  • Prov 26:1
    69%

    1Like snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

  • Ps 109:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

    18As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

  • Eccl 7:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21Also, do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant curse you.

    22For often your own heart knows that you yourself have cursed others.

  • Prov 26:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool’s back.

    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

  • Prov 3:33
    68%

    33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked: but he blesses the dwelling of the just.

  • Job 5:3
    68%

    3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

  • Prov 7:23
    68%

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

  • Job 5:6
    68%

    6Though affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;

  • Amos 3:5
    67%

    5Can a bird fall into a snare upon the earth, where no trap is set for it? Shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

  • Job 31:30
    67%

    30Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul.

  • Job 24:18
    67%

    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • Job 28:7
    67%

    7There is a path that no bird knows, and the vulture's eye has not seen:

  • Isa 16:2
    67%

    2For it shall be, that as a wandering bird cast out from the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

  • Deut 22:6
    66%

    6If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way, in any tree, or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

  • Prov 27:14
    66%

    14He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted as a curse to him.

  • Lam 3:52
    66%

    52My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

  • Num 23:8
    66%

    8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

  • Deut 28:16
    66%

    16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

  • Prov 30:10-11
    2 verses
    66%

    10Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

    11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Prov 26:18
    66%

    18Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

  • Prov 6:5
    66%

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Deut 28:19-20
    2 verses
    66%

    19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

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  • Ps 37:22
    66%

    22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Deut 29:19
    66%

    19And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

  • Prov 17:13
    66%

    13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

  • Prov 23:5
    66%

    5Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

  • Deut 28:26
    66%

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  • Job 39:26
    66%

    26Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch its wings toward the south?

  • Jer 5:27
    66%

    27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

  • Jer 17:11
    66%

    11As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    65%

    13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.

  • Job 36:18
    65%

    18Because there is wrath, beware lest he takes you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

  • Jas 3:10
    65%

    10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

  • Job 27:22
    65%

    22For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

  • Prov 20:21
    65%

    21An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.

  • Prov 3:30
    65%

    30Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

  • Jer 17:6
    65%

    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Prov 10:22
    65%

    22The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

  • Prov 25:23
    65%

    23The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

  • Zech 5:3
    64%

    3Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side.

  • Prov 11:29
    64%

    29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Ps 91:10
    64%

    10No evil shall befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.