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New American Standard Bible
Proverbs 17:14
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The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
The beginning of strife is as one that openeth the waters: therefore or the contention be medled with, leaue off.
To start a conflict is to release a flood;stop the dispute before it breaks out.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, Therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
The start of an argument is like a small leak in a dam. Stop it before a big fight breaks out.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water [as from a small break in a dam; first it trickles and then it gushes]; Therefore abandon the quarrel before it breaks out and tempers explode.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
The start of an argument is like a water leak— so stop it before real trouble breaks out.
Starting a fight is like letting water through [a dike] — better stop the quarrel before it gets worse.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therfore leaue off contention, before it be medled with.
Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before there be quarrelling.
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Like the release of water is the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.
The beginning of strife is like the releasing of water, therefore leave off fighting before it breaks out.
Starting a quarrel is like a leak in a dam, so stop it before a fight breaks out.
Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!
The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.
Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.
The beginning of trouble is like letting out water. So stop arguing before fighting breaks out.
A letting forth of water, is the beginning of strife, therefore, before it breaketh out, abandon, contention.
The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.
He who sheds blood stirs up judgment before the ruler.
The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
The beginning of strife is, as when a man maketh an issue for water: therfore leaue of before the contention be medled with.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so stop before the quarrel breaks out.
The beginning of contention is [as] when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.
He that leeueth watir, is heed of stryues; and bifor that he suffrith wrong, he forsakith dom.
The beginning of contention [is] a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, Therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
The beginning of strife is [as] when one lets out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore withdraw from contention, before it be meddled with.
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
He yt soweth discorde & strife, is like one yt dyggeth vp a water broke: but an open enemie is like the water yt breaketh out & reneth abrode.
The start of a quarrel is like a leak in a dam, so stop it before it bursts.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water,So abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
beginning: Proverbs 17:19, Proverbs 26:21, Proverbs 29:22, Judges 12:1-6, 2 Samuel 2:14-17, 2 Samuel 19:41-43, 2 Samuel 20:1-22, 2 Chronicles 10:14-16, 2 Chronicles 13:17, 2 Chronicles 25:17-24, 2 Chronicles 28:6
leave: Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 16:32, Proverbs 19:11, Proverbs 20:3, Proverbs 25:8, Genesis 13:8, Genesis 13:9, Judges 8:1-3, Ecclesiastes 7:8, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Matthew 5:39-41, Acts 6:1-5, Acts 15:2-21, Romans 12:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 2 Timothy 2:23, 2 Timothy 2:24, James 3:14-18
Reciprocal: Judges 12:6 - there fell 2 Samuel 2:26 - it will be 2 Samuel 2:27 - unless 2 Samuel 19:43 - the words 2 Samuel 20:2 - every man 1 Kings 12:14 - My father made 2 Kings 14:8 - Come 2 Kings 14:10 - why shouldest Proverbs 3:30 - General Proverbs 18:1 - intermeddleth Proverbs 18:6 - fool's Proverbs 26:4 - General Proverbs 30:33 - so Hosea 5:10 - remove Acts 12:20 - but 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself Colossians 3:8 - anger Hebrews 12:14 - Follow James 1:19 - slow to wrath
Cross-References
"I will make My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."
"And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, including a slave who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
"But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."
Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
On this very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as his son Ishmael.
'For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
'For seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
'Whoever mixes any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'"
"Whoever makes any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water,.... As when a man makes a little hole in the bank of a river, or cuts a small passage in it, to let the water into an adjoining field; by the force of the water, the passage is widened, and it flows in, in great abundance, to the overflow and prejudice of the field; nor is it easily stopped: so a single word, spoken in anger, with some warmth, or in a way of contradiction, has been the beginning and occasion of great strife and contention. The words in the Hebrew text lie thus; "he that letteth out water [is] the beginning of strife" o; which some understand of letting out water into another man's field, which occasions contentions, quarrels, and lawsuits; but the former sense is best: the Targum is,
"he that sheddeth blood as water stirreth up strifes;''
therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with; cease from it as soon as begun; leave it off before it is well entered: or "before one mixes himself" p with it, or is implicated with it; got so far into it, that it will be difficult to get out of it: or "before thou strivest with any openly"; which sense the word has in the Arabic language, as Schultens q observes; that is, before you come to open words and blows, put an end to the contention; do not suffer it to proceed so far; since it cannot be known what will be the consequence of it: or rather, leave it off, as the same learned writer in his later thoughts, in his commentary on the place, by the help of Arabism, also renders it, "before the teeth are made bare": or shown, in quarrelling, brawling, reproaching, in wrath and anger.
o פוטר מים ראשית מרון "qui aperit aquam, vel aperiens aquas (est) principium contentionis", Pagninus, Montanus. p לפני התגלע "antequam sese immisceat", Junius & Tremellius. q Animadv. p. 931.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The figure is taken from the great tank or reservoir upon which Eastern cities often depended for their supply of water. The beginning of strife is compared to the first crack in the mound of such a reservoir. At first a few drops ooze out, but after a time the whole mass of waters pour themselves forth with fury, and it is hard to set limits to the destruction which they cause.
Before it be meddled with - literally, “before it rolls, or rushes forward.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 17:14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water — As soon as the smallest breach is made in the dike or dam, the water begins to press from all parts towards the breach; the resistance becomes too great to be successfully opposed, so that dikes and all are speedily swept away. Such is the beginning of contentions, quarrels, lawsuits, &c.
Leave off contention, before it be meddled with. — As you see what an altercation must lead to, therefore do not begin it. Before it be mingled together, התגלע hithgalla, before the spirits of the contending parties come into conflict - are joined together in battle, and begin to deal out mutual reflections and reproaches. When you see that the dispute is likely to take this turn, leave it off immediately.
