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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Amsal 17:14
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Memulai pertengkaran adalah seperti membuka jalan air; jadi undurlah sebelum perbantahan mulai.
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
And I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, and wyll multiplie thee exceedyngly.
And euery man chylde of eyght dayes olde shalbe circumcised amongst you in your generations, both he that is borne in thy house, as he that is bought with money of any straunger, whiche is not of thy seede.
And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.
Abraham also hym selfe was ninetie yere olde and nine when the fleshe of his foreskynne was circumcised.
The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his sonne.
Seuen dayes shal ye eate vnleauened bread, so that euen the first day ye put away leauen out of your house: For who so euer eateth leauened bread from the first daye vntyll the seuenth daye, that soule shalbe rooted out of Israel.
Seuen dayes shal ther be no leauened bread founde in your houses: and whosoeuer eateth leauened bread, that soule shalbe rooted out from the congregatio of Israel, whether he be straunger or borne in the lande.
Whosoeuer maketh lyke that, or whosoeuer putteth any of it vpon a strauger, shall perishe from amongst his people.
Whosoeuer shall make lyke vnto that to smell thereto, shall perishe from amongst 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.
