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Proverbs 26:19

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only 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

Legacy Standard Bible
So is the man who deceives his neighbor,And says, "Am I not joking?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?
Darby Translation
so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?
New King James Version
Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"
Literal Translation
so is a man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?
World English Bible
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
King James Version (1611)
So is the man that deceiueth his neighbour, & sayth, Am not I in sport?
King James Version
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.
Amplified Bible
So is the man who deceives his neighbor (acquaintance, friend) And then says, "Was I not joking?"
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?
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?
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."
Geneva Bible (1587)
So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?
George Lamsa Translation
So is the man who deceives his neighbor; when he is caught, he says, I was merely jesting.
Hebrew Names Version
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith: 'Am not I in sport?'
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."
English Revised Version
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Berean Standard Bible
so is the man who deceives his neighbor 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.
Lexham English Bible
so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"
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?"
New Century Version
is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."
Christian Standard Bible®
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
so a man that anoieth gilefuli his frend, and whanne he is takun, he schal seie, Y dide pleiynge.
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?'

Contextual Overview

18 Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows, 19 so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only 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
Then Abimelech exclaimed, "What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech commanded all the people, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Song of Solomon 4:15
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
John 7:38
let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘ From within him will flow rivers of living water .'"

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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