the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Proverbs 26:19
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So is the man who deceives his neighbor,And says, "Am I not joking?"
So is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?
so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?
Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"
so is a man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
So is the man that deceiueth his neighbour, & sayth, Am not I in sport?
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.
So is the man who deceives his neighbor (acquaintance, friend) And then says, "Was I not joking?"
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith, Am not I in sport?
So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
So is the man that deceives his neighbor, And says, Am I not joking?
So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?
so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"
than to cheat someone and say, "I was only fooling!"
is one who deceives another, then says, "It was just a joke."
So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?
So is the man who deceives his neighbor; when he is caught, he says, I was merely jesting.
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith: 'Am not I in sport?'
so is the man who fools his neighbor with a lie, and says, "I was only joking."
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?
So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.
so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
So is a person who deceives his neighbor, And says, "Was I not joking?"
is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
so a man that anoieth gilefuli his frend, and whanne he is takun, he schal seie, Y dide pleiynge.
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"
So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'
Contextual Overview
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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
"How could you do this to us?" Abimelech exclaimed. "One of my people might easily have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have made us guilty of great sin."
Then Abimelech issued a public proclamation: "Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death!"
You are a garden fountain, a well of fresh water streaming down from Lebanon's mountains.
Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.'"
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.
