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Proverbs 3:30
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Don’t accuse anyone without cause,when he has done you no harm.
Don't strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
Don't accuse a person for no good reason; don't accuse someone who has not harmed you.
Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
Do not quarrel with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Do not contend with a person for no reason, If he has done you no harm.
Don't strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Striue not with a man causelesse, when he hath done thee no harme.
Do not contend with a man without cause,If he has dealt you no harm.
Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.
Don't argue just to be arguing, when you haven't been hurt.
Don't quarrel with someone for no reason, if he has done you no harm.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Do not contend with a man without a cause, if he has done you no harm.
Don't argue with others for no reason when they have never done you any harm.
Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when he did not do you harm.
Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
Stryue not lightly wt eny man, where as he hath done ye no harme.
Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done thee no harm.
Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Striue not with a man without cause, if hee haue done thee no harme.
Striue not with any man without a cause, where as he hath done thee no harme.
Be not ready to quarrel with a man without a cause, lest he do thee some harm.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Stryue thou not ayens a man with out cause, whanne he doith noon yuel to thee.
Don't strive with man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he hath done thee no harm.
Do not strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Don't pick a fight without reason, when no one has done you harm.
Do not fight with a man for no reason, when he has done you no wrong.
Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when no harm has been done to you.
Contend not with a man without cause, if he hath dealt thee no wrong.
Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil.
Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.
Don't walk around with a chip on your shoulder, always spoiling for a fight. Don't try to be like those who shoulder their way through life. Why be a bully? "Why not?" you say. Because God can't stand twisted souls. It's the straightforward who get his respect.
Do not contend with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 17:14, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 25:8, Proverbs 25:9, Proverbs 29:22, Matthew 5:39-41, Romans 12:18-21, 1 Corinthians 6:6-8, 2 Timothy 2:24
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 14:10 - why shouldest Ezekiel 38:11 - safely
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Strive not with a man without cause, Either by words, in a wrangling, quarrelsome, and contentious way, for mere trifles; when there is no foundation for it, no just reason given to form a complaint, or pick a quarrel upon; or by deeds, by lawsuits, when there is nothing to proceed upon; or it is so trifling, that it is not worth while to litigate it or contend about: such, who strive either way, are far from following the example of Wisdom or Christ, and from taking his advice, Matthew 12:19;
if he have done thee no harm; no real hurt to thy person, nor injury to thy substance; if he has not abused nor defrauded thee, nor taken any thing from thee by force or fraud, nor withheld from thee what is thy right and due. But otherwise the laws of God and man ought to take place; right may be sought for, and justice should be done.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A marked change in style. The continuous exhortation is replaced by a series of maxims.
From them to whom it is due - literally, as in the margin. The precept expresses the great Scriptural thought that the so-called possession of wealth is but a stewardship; that the true owners of what we call our own are those to whom, with it, we may do good. Not to relieve them is a breach of trust.
Proverbs 3:28
Procrastination is especially fatal to the giving impulse. The Septuagint adds the caution: âfor thou knowest not what the morrow will bring forth.â
Proverbs 3:29
Securely - i. e., âWith full trust,â without care or suspicion. Compare Judges 18:7, Judges 18:27.
Proverbs 3:31
A protest against the tendency to worship success, to think the lot of the âman of violenceâ enviable, and therefore to be chosen.
Proverbs 3:32
The true nature of such success. That which people admire is an abomination to Yahweh. His âsecret,â i. e., His close, intimate communion as of âfriend with friend,â is with the righteous.
Proverbs 3:33
The thought, like that which appears in Zechariah 5:3-4, and pervades the tragedies of Greek drama, is of a curse, an Ate, dwelling in a house from generation to generation, the source of ever-recurring woes. There is, possibly, a contrast between the âhouseâ or âpalaceâ of the rich oppressor and the lowly shepherdâs hut, the âsheep-coteâ 2 Samuel 7:8 ennobled only by its upright inhabitants.
Proverbs 3:34
Surely - Better, If he scorneth the scorners, i. e., Divine scorn of evil is the complement, and, as it were, the condition, of divine bounty to the lowly (compare the marginal reference and the Proverbs 1:26 note).
Proverbs 3:35
The margin conveys the thought that âfoolsâ glory in that which is indeed their shame. Others take the clause as meaning âevery fool takes up shame,â i. e., gains nothing but that.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 3:30. Strive not with a man — Do not be of a litigious, quarrelsome spirit. Be not under the influence of too nice a sense of honour. If thou must appeal to judicial authority to bring him that wrongs thee to reason, avoid all enmity, and do nothing in a spirit of revenge. But, if he have done thee no harm, why contend with him? May not others in the same way contend with and injure thee!
