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Proverbs 26:19
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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?
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
So is a person who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."
So is the man who deceives his neighbor (acquaintance, friend) And then says, "Was I not joking?"
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?
So is the man who deceives his neighbor,And says, "Am I not joking?"
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
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 who deceives his neighbor; when he is caught, he says, I was merely jesting.
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?
And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.
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?
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 doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
so a man that anoieth gilefuli his frend, and whanne he is takun, he schal seie, Y dide pleiynge.
So is the man that deceives his neighbor, And says, Am I not joking?
So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?
so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"
Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"
is someone who lies to a friend and then says, "I was only joking."
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, 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 hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'
So is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was 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
"Don't you know what you've done?" Abimelech exclaimed. "If someone had slept with her, you would have made our whole nation guilty!"
Then Abimelech warned his people that anyone who even touched Isaac or Rebekah would be put to death.
You are a spring in the garden, a fountain of pure water, and a refreshing stream from Mount Lebanon.
Have faith in me, and you will have life-giving water flowing from deep inside you, just as the Scriptures say."
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.
