Księga Kaznodziei 10:11

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba

Jeżeli wąż ukąsi przed zaklęciem, zaklinacz nie odniesie korzyści.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Człowiek języczny nie jest różny od węża niezaklętego, który ukąsi.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Jeźli ukąsi wąż przed zaklęciem, nic nie pomogą słowa zaklinacza.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Jeżeli żmija gryzie, ponieważ nie była zaklętą, wtedy nie ma pożytku ten, co zaklina .

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Jeźli ukąsi wąż przed zaklęciem, nic nie pomogą słowa zaklinacza.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Wąż ukąsi bez zaklęcia, a gaduła nie jest niczym lepszym.

Biblia Warszawska
Jeżeli wąż ukąsi przed zaklęciem, to zaklinacz nic nie zyskuje.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the serpent: Psalms 58:4, Psalms 58:5, Jeremiah 8:17

a babbler: Heb. the master of the tongue, Psalms 52:2, Psalms 64:3, Proverbs 18:21, James 3:6

Reciprocal: Proverbs 18:7 - his destruction James 3:8 - full

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment,.... See Jeremiah 8:17. Or rather, "without a whisper" t; without hissing, or any noise, giving no warning at all: so the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "in silence"; some serpents bite, others sting, some both; see

Proverbs 23:32; some hiss, others not, as here;

and a babbler is no better; a whisperer, a backbiter, a busy tattling body, that goes from house to house, and, in a private manner, speaks evil of civil governments, of ministers of the word, and of other persons; and; in a secret way, defames men, and detracts from their characters: such an one is like a venomous viper, a poisonous serpent or adder; and there is no more guarding against him than against such a creature that bites secretly.

t בלא לחש "absque susurro", Pagniuus; "absque sibilo", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather: “If a serpent without enchantment (i. e., not being enchanted) bites, then there is no advantage to the charmer”: i. e., if the charmer is unwisely slack in exercising his craft, he will be bitten like other people. See Psalms 58:4 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 10:11. The serpent will bite without enchantment — בלא לחש belo lachash, without hissing. As a snake may bite before it hiss, so also will the babbler, talkative person, or calumniator. Without directly speaking evil, he insinuates, by innuendoes, things injurious to the reputation of his neighbour. Gif the eddir bite in silence, noyhing lasse than he hath that privily backbiteth. - Old MS. Bible. "A babbler of his tongue is no better than a serpent that styngeth without hyssynge." - COVERDALE. The moral of this saying is simply this: A calumniator is as dangerous as a poisonous serpent; and from the envenomed tongue of slander and detraction no man is safe. The comparing the serpent, נחש nachash, to a babbler, has something singular in it. I have already supposed that the creature mentioned, Genesis 3:1, was of the genus simia. This has been ridiculed, but not disproved.