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Proverbs 26:19
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is someone who lies to a friend and then says, "I was only joking."
So is the man that deceives his neighbor, And says, Am I not joking?
is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."
so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"
So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
so a man that anoieth gilefuli his frend, and whanne he is takun, he schal seie, Y dide pleiynge.
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
than to cheat someone and say, "I was only fooling!"
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith, Am not I in sport?
So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
is one who deceives another, then says, "It was just a joke."
so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith: 'Am not I in sport?'
So is the man that deceiueth his neighbour, & sayth, Am not I in sport?
so is the man who fools his neighbor with a lie, and says, "I was only joking."
so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?
So is the man who deceives his neighbor; when he is caught, he says, I was merely jesting.
So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?
So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?
so is the person who deceives his neighborand says, “I was only joking!”
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"
so is a man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?
So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'
And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.
So is a person who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"
So is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
So is the man who deceives his neighbor,And says, "Am I not joking?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
and: Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 14:9, Proverbs 15:21, Ephesians 5:4, 2 Peter 2:13
Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:2 - deceived 2 Samuel 2:14 - play before
Cross-References
Abimelech said, "What is this that you have done to us? One of the men [among our people] might easily have been intimate with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us [before God]."
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, "Whoever touches this man [Isaac] or his wife [Rebekah] shall without exception be put to death."
"You are a fountain in a garden, A well of fresh and living water, And streams flowing from Lebanon."
"He who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Me], as the Scripture has said, 'From his innermost being will flow continually rivers of living water.'"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour,.... By telling him a lie; or by reporting false things concerning him; or by cheating him in trade and commerce; or by taking his goods privately from him; and, when caught in either of these,
and saith, Am not I in sport? do not be angry, I designed no hurt; it is all in jest, a mere joke: but, had he not been apprehended, it would have been in earnest, as he was. This is only an excuse, and as absurd an one as if a man should set fire to his neighbour's house and barns, or throw arrows at him, or strike him with any instrument of death, as the sword, &c. and then say he was only in jest, or pretend madness.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The teacher cuts off the plea which people make when they have hurt their neighbor by lies, that they âdid not mean mischief,â that they were âonly in fun.â Such jesting is like that of the madman flinging firebrands or arrows.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 26:19. Am not I in sport? — How many hearts have been made sad, and how many reputations have been slain, by this kind of sport! "I designed no harm by what I said;" "It was only in jest," &c. Sportive as such persons may think their conduct to be, it is as ruinous as that of the madman who shoots arrows, throws firebrands, and projects in all directions instruments of death, so that some are wounded, some burnt, and some slain.
