Księga Przysłów 27:16

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Kto chce ją powstrzymać, powstrzymuje wiatr, chce w zaciśniętej dłoni zatrzymać oliwę.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Który ją kryje, kryje wiatr, a nie zatai się jako olejek wonny w prawej ręce jego.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Kto ją kryje, kryje wiatr, a wonią wyda; jako olejek wonny w prawej ręce jego.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Kto by ją chciał powstrzymać – powstrzymuje wiatr, albo rozlewającą się oliwę, na którą natknął się swoją prawicą.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Kto ją kryje, kryje wiatr, a wonią wyda; jako olejek wonny w prawej ręce jego.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Kto ją ukrywa, ukrywa wiatr i w prawej ręce wonny olejek, który sam siebie wydaje.

Biblia Warszawska
Kto ją chce powstrzymać, to jakby wiatr powstrzymywał, a jego prawica chwyta oliwę.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the ointment: John 12:3

Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:4 - she Proverbs 21:9 - better Proverbs 25:24 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind,.... Whoever attempts to stop her brawls and contentions, to repress and restrain them, and hinder her voice being heard in the streets, and endeavours to hide the shame that comes upon herself and family, attempts a thing as impossible as to hide the wind in the palm of a man's hand, or to stop it from blowing; for as that, by being restrained or pent up by any methods that can be used, makes the greater noise, so, by all the means that are used to still a contentious woman, she is but the more noisy and clamorous, and becomes more shameful and infamous;

and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself]: or "will call" or "calls" h, and says, in effect, Here am I; for the smell of it, which cannot be hid when held in a man's hand, betrays it; and the faster he holds it, and the more he presses and squeezes it, and the more it is heated hereby, the more it diffuses its savour, and is known to be where it is; and so all attempts to stop the mouth of a brawling woman does but cause her to brawl the louder.

h יקרא "clamabit", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Vatablus, Mercerus; "vocabit", Baynus; "clamat", Piscator, Michaelis; "praeconem agit", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The point is the impossibility of concealment or restraint. A person cannot hide the wind, or clasp it in his hands. If he takes an unguent in his right hand, the odor betrays him, or it slips out. So, in like manner, the “contentious woman” is one whose faults it is impossible either to hide or check. The difficulty of the proverb led to a different reading, adopted by the versions, “The north wind is rough, and yet it is called propitious”; it clears off the clouds and brings fine weather.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:16. Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind — You may as well attempt to repress the blowing of the wind, as the tongue of a scold; and to conceal this unfortunate propensity of a wife is as impossible as to hush the storm, and prevent its sound from being heard.

The ointment of his right hand — You can no more conceal such a woman's conduct, than you can the smell of the aromatic oil with which your hand has been anointed. The Hebrew is very obscure, and is variously translated. Coverdale thus: "He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde; and holdith oyle fast in his honde." That is, he attempts to do what is impossible to be done.