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Proverbs 26:18
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Like a madman who throws flaming darts and deadly arrows,
Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death
Like a maniac who shoots Flaming arrows, arrows, and death,
Like a madman shooting deadly, burning arrows
Like a madman who throws Firebrands, arrows, and death,
Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,
Like a madman who shootsFirebrands, arrows, and death,
Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,
It's no crazier to shoot sharp and flaming arrows
Like a madman shooting deadly arrows and firebrands
As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Anyone who would trick someone and then say, "I was only joking" is like a fool who shoots flaming arrows into the air and accidentally kills someone.
Like haughty men who utter words sharp and deadly as arrows,
Someone who tricks someone else and then claims that he was only joking is like a crazy person playing with a deadly weapon.
Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
As one feigning weakness, throwing sparks, arrows and death,
Like as one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes out of a preuy place, euen so doth a dyssembler with his neghboure,
As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,
As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;
As a mad man, who casteth firebrands, arrowes, and death:
As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes:
As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;
As he is gilti, that sendith speris and arowis in to deth;
As a lunatic who casts firebrands, Arrows, and death,
As a mad [man] who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death,
Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon
Like a crazy man who throws pieces of burning wood and arrows of death,
Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows,
As a madman throwing firebrands, arrows and death,
As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death.
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
As [one] pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,
Like a madman who throws Firebrands, arrows and death,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
firebrands: Heb. flames, or sparks
arrows: Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 25:18, Genesis 49:23
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 2:14 - play before Proverbs 10:23 - General Proverbs 14:9 - Fools Proverbs 15:21 - joy Jeremiah 11:15 - thou doest evil
Cross-References
That's how the place got named Beersheba (the Oath-Well), because the two of them swore a covenant oath there. After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and his commander, Phicol, left and went back to Philistine territory.
Don't just go shopping for a god. Gods are not for sale. I swear I'll never treat god-names like brand-names.
"On the Big Day"—this is God -of-the-Angel-Armies speaking—"I will wipe out the store-bought gods, erase their names from memory. People will forget they ever heard of them. And I'll get rid of the prophets who polluted the air with their diseased words. If anyone dares persist in spreading diseased, polluting words, his very own parents will step in and say, ‘That's it! You're finished! Your lies about God put everyone in danger,' and then they'll stab him to death in the very act of prophesying lies about God —his own parents, mind you!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As a mad [man], who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death. Or the instruments of death, as Aben Ezra; or the sharp arrows of death, as the Targum and Syriac version; who casts firebrands into the houses and barns of his neighbours, to consume them; or arrows at their persons and cattle, to destroy them; or any other instruments of death, which none but a mad man, or one wickedly mad, would do. Or, "as one that makes himself mad" e; that feigns himself mad, and, under colour of this, does mischief to his neighbour's person and property: or, "as one that hides himself" f; that casts firebrands, arrows, and other deadly things, in a private way, so as not to be seen, and that it may not be known from whence they come: or, "as one that wearies himself" g, so Jarchi; in doing mischief in such a way. The word in the Arabic language signifies to play and be in sport; and so it means one that does these things in sport, as it is a sport to a fool to do mischief; which sense agrees with what follows.
e כמתלהלה "ut se habet qui iunsanum ne simulat", Piscator; "ut qui se insanire fingit", Cocceius. f "Sicut abscondit se", Pagninus, Mercerus, Gejerus. g "Ut sese fatigat", Tigurine version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The teacher cuts off the plea which people make when they have hurt their neighbor by lies, that they “did not mean mischief,” that they were “only in fun.” Such jesting is like that of the madman flinging firebrands or arrows.
