Proverbs 25:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:25 : 25 `Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
  • Prov 18:6 : 6 The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
  • Prov 30:33 : 33 For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end `are' ways of death.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved `it' so, And what do they at its latter end?
  • Luke 14:31-32 : 31 `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him? 32 and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.
  • 2 Sam 2:14-16 : 14 And Abner saith unto Joab, `Let the youths rise, I pray thee, and they play before us;' and Joab saith, `Let them rise.' 15 And they rise and pass over, in number twelve of Benjamin, even of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. 16 And they lay hold, each on the head of his companion, and his sword `is' in the side of his companion, and they fall together, and `one' calleth that place Helkath-Hazzurim, which `is' in Gibeon,
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, `For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'
  • 2 Kgs 14:8-9 : 8 then hath Amaziah sent messengers unto Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, `Come, we look one another in the face.' 9 And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that `is' in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that `is' in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that `is' in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn. 10 Thou hast certainly smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be honoured, and abide in thy house; and why dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou, and Judah with thee?' 11 And Amaziah hath not hearkened, and go up doth Jehoash king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that `is' Judah's, 12 and Judah is smitten before Israel, and they flee each to his tent.

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    9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

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    17 Laying hold on the ears of a dog, `Is' a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

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