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Proverbs 14:17
Lexham English Bible
Proverbs 14:17
Lexham English Bible
17 He who is short of temper[a] will act foolishly,
and the man who schemes will be hated.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 14:17 Literally “nostril”
Proverbs 14:17
New English Translation
Proverbs 14:17
New English Translation
17 A person who has a quick temper[a] will do foolish things,
and a person with crafty schemes[b] will be hated.[c]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 14:17 sn The proverb discusses two character traits that are distasteful to others—the quick tempered person (“short of anger” or impatient) and the crafty person (“man of devices”). C. H. Toy thinks that the proverb is antithetical and renders it “but a wise man endures” (Proverbs [ICC], 292). In other words, the quick-tempered person acts foolishly and loses people’s respect, but the wise man does not.
- Proverbs 14:17 tn Heb “a man of devices.”
- Proverbs 14:17 tn The verb שָׂנֵא (saneʾ) is stative and as a Niphal is ingressive (“become hated”); its imperfect form should be future rather than present. tc The LXX reads “endures” (from נָשָׂא, nasaʾ) rather than “is hated” (from שָׂנֵא, saneʾ). This change seems to have arisen on the assumption that a contrast was needed. It has: “a man of thought endures.” Other versions take מְזִמּוֹת (mezimmot) in a good sense, but antithetical parallelism is unwarranted here.
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