Add parallel Print Page Options

29 Do not say, “I will do to others as they have done to me;
    I will pay them back for what they have done.”(A)

Read full chapter

29 Do not say, “Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him;
    I will pay back the man according to his deed.”

Read full chapter

21 If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat,
    and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink,(A)
22 for you will heap coals of fire on their heads,
    and the Lord will reward you.(B)

Read full chapter

21 If your enemy is hungry, feed him bread,
    and if thirsty, let him drink water.
22 For coals of fire you will heap upon his head,
    and Yahweh will reward you.

Read full chapter

28 Like a city breached, without walls,
    is one who lacks self-control.(A)

Read full chapter

28 A breached city where there is no wall
    is like a man who has no[a] self-control for his spirit.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:28 Literally “there is no”

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,
    but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Read full chapter

Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger,
    but who will stand before jealousy?

Read full chapter

Scoffers set a city aflame,
    but the wise turn away wrath.(A)
If the wise go to law with fools,
    there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

Read full chapter

Men of scoffing set a city aflame,
    but the wise turn away wrath.
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man,
    then there is rankling and ridicule,[a] but there is no relief.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:9 Hebrew “there is ridicule”

11 A fool gives full vent to anger,
    but the wise quietly holds it back.(A)

Read full chapter

11 A fool gives all his breath,[a]
    but the wise holds back in quiet.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:11 Or “spirit”

22 One given to anger stirs up strife,
    and the hothead causes much transgression.(A)

Read full chapter

22 A man of anger will stir strife,
    and the owner of anger, much transgression.

Read full chapter

32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
    or if you have been devising evil,
    put your hand on your mouth.(A)
33 For as pressing milk produces curds
    and pressing the nose produces blood,
    so pressing anger produces strife.(B)

Read full chapter

32 If you have been foolish by exalting yourself,
    and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth.
33 For pressing milk produces curd,
    and pressing the nose produces blood,
    so pressing anger[a] produces strife.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:33 Literally “nostrils”