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New Century Version

Proverbs 26:19

is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Hypocrisy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jesting;   The Topic Concordance - Deception;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gossip;   Tongue;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Betray;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so is the person who deceives his neighborand says, “I was only joking!”
Hebrew Names Version
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
King James Version
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
English Standard Version
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
New American Standard Bible
So is a person who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
Amplified Bible
So is the man who deceives his neighbor (acquaintance, friend) And then says, "Was I not joking?"
World English Bible
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?
Legacy Standard Bible
So is the man who deceives his neighbor,And says, "Am I not joking?"
Berean Standard Bible
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
Contemporary English Version
than to cheat someone and say, "I was only fooling!"
Complete Jewish Bible
is one who deceives another, then says, "It was just a joke."
Darby Translation
so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?
George Lamsa Translation
So is the man who deceives his neighbor; when he is caught, he says, I was merely jesting.
Lexham English Bible
so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"
Literal Translation
so is a man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.
American Standard Version
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith, Am not I in sport?
Bible in Basic English
So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith: 'Am not I in sport?'
King James Version (1611)
So is the man that deceiueth his neighbour, & sayth, Am not I in sport?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?
English Revised Version
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
so a man that anoieth gilefuli his frend, and whanne he is takun, he schal seie, Y dide pleiynge.
Update Bible Version
So is the man that deceives his neighbor, And says, Am I not joking?
Webster's Bible Translation
So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?
New English Translation
so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"
New King James Version
Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"
New Living Translation
is someone who lies to a friend and then says, "I was only joking."
New Life Bible
so is the man who fools his neighbor with a lie, and says, "I was only joking."
New Revised Standard
so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?
Douay-Rheims Bible
So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.
Revised Standard Version
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
Young's Literal Translation
So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"

Contextual Overview

18 Like a madman shooting deadly, burning arrows 19 is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."

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

Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "What have you done to us? One of our men might have had sexual relations with your wife. Then we would have been guilty of a great sin."
Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech warned everyone, "Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death."
Song of Solomon 4:15
You are like a garden fountain— a well of fresh water flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.
John 7:38
If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person's heart, as the Scripture says."

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 “did not mean mischief,” that they were “only in fun.” 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.


 
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