Proverbs 26:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 23:8 : 8 What -- do I pierce? -- God hath not pierced! And what -- am I indignant? -- Jehovah hath not been indignant!
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.'
  • Neh 13:2 : 2 because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.
  • Ps 109:28 : 28 They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.
  • Prov 27:8 : 8 As a bird wandering from her nest, So `is' a man wandering from his place.
  • Deut 23:4-5 : 4 because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way, in your coming out from Egypt, and because he hath hired against thee Balaam son of Beor, of Pethor of Aram-Naharaim, to revile thee; 5 and Jehovah thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and Jehovah thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because Jehovah thy God hath loved thee;
  • 1 Sam 14:28-29 : 28 And a man of the people answereth and saith, `Thy father certainly adjured the people, saying, Cursed `is' the man who eateth food to-day; and the people are weary.' 29 And Jonathan saith, `My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, that mine eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.
  • 1 Sam 17:43 : 43 And the Philistine saith unto David, `Am I a dog that thou art coming unto me with staves?' and the Philistine revileth David by his gods,

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  • 20 Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.

  • 8 As a bird wandering from her nest, So `is' a man wandering from his place.

  • 17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

  • 1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour `is' not comely for a fool.

  • Ps 109:17-18
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    17 And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

    18 And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

  • Eccl 7:21-22
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    21 Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.

    22 For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.

  • Prov 26:3-4
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    3 A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

    4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.

  • 33 The curse of Jehovah `is' in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

  • 3 I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

  • 23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

  • 6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

  • 5 Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not?

  • 30 Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

  • 18 Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

  • 7 A path -- not known it hath a ravenous fowl, Nor scorched it hath an eye of the kite,

  • 2 And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, `at' fords of Arnon.

  • 6 `When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones;

  • 14 Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.

  • 52 Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.

  • 8 What -- do I pierce? -- God hath not pierced! And what -- am I indignant? -- Jehovah hath not been indignant!

  • 16 `Cursed `art' thou in the city, and cursed `art' thou in the field.

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    10 Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

    11 A generation `is', that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

  • 18 As `one' pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

  • 5 Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

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    19 `Cursed `art' thou in thy coming in, and cursed `art' thou in thy going out.

    20 `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings `by' which thou hast forsaken Me.

  • 22 For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

  • 19 `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

  • 13 Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.

  • 5 For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

  • 26 and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.

  • 26 By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?

  • 27 As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

  • 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

  • 13 as saith the simile of the ancients, From the wicked goeth out wickedness, and my hand is not on thee.

  • 18 Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

  • 10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

  • 22 And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

  • 21 An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

  • 30 Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.

  • 6 And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

  • 22 The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

  • 23 A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue -- indignant faces.

  • 3 And he saith unto me, `This `is' the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

  • 29 Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

  • 10 Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent,