Księga Przysłów 27:17

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Żelazo ostrzy żelazo; człowieka ostrzy człowiek.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Żelazo żelazem bywa naostrzone, także człowiek zaostrza oblicze przyjaciela swego.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Żelazo żelazem bywa naostrzone; tak mąż zaostrza oblicze przyjaciela swego.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Żelazo ostrzy się żelazem; zaś jeden człowiek niech wygładza spojrzenie drugiego.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Żelazo żelazem bywa naostrzone; tak mąż zaostrza oblicze przyjaciela swego.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Żelazo ostrzy się żelazem, tak człowiek zaostrza oblicze swego przyjaciela.

Biblia Warszawska
Żelazo ostrzy się żelazem, a zachowanie swojego bliźniego wygładza człowiek.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Iron: 1 Samuel 13:20, 1 Samuel 13:21

so: Proverbs 27:9, Joshua 1:18, Joshua 2:24, 1 Samuel 11:9, 1 Samuel 11:10, 1 Samuel 23:16, 2 Samuel 10:11, 2 Samuel 10:12, Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, 1 Thessalonians 3:3, 2 Timothy 1:8, 2 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 2:3, 2 Timothy 2:9-13, Hebrews 10:24, James 1:2, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:13

Reciprocal: Job 16:5 - But I would Ecclesiastes 4:9 - are Luke 24:32 - Did John 11:29 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Iron sharpeneth iron,.... A sword or knife made of iron is sharpened by it; so butchers sharpen their knives;

so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend; by conversation with him; thus learned men sharpen one another's minds, and excite each other to learned studies; Christians sharpen one another's graces, or stir up each other to the exercise of them, and the gifts which are bestowed on them, and to love and to good works. So Jarchi and Gersom understand it of the sharpening of men's minds to the learning of doctrine; but Aben Ezra, takes it in an ill sense, that as iron strikes iron and sharpens it, so a wrathful man irritates and provokes wrath in another. Some render the words, "as iron delighteth in iron, so a man rejoiceth the countenance of his friend", i: by his company and conversation.

i יחד "laetatur", a חדה "laetari; ferrum in ferro laetatur, et virum laetificant ora socii ejus", Gussetius, p. 242. "ferrum ferro hiluratur, et vir exhilarat vultum sodalis sui", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The proverb expresses the gain of mutual counsel as found in clear, well-defined thoughts. Two minds, thus acting on each other, become more acute. This is better than to see in “sharpening” the idea of provoking, and the point of the maxim in the fact that the quarrels of those who have been friends are bitter in proportion to their previous intimacy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:17. Iron sharpeneth iron — As hard iron, viz., steel, will bring a knife to a better edge when it is properly whetted against it: so one friend may be the means of exciting another to reflect, dive deeply into, and illustrate a subject, without which whetting or excitement, this had never taken place. Had Horace seen this proverb in the Septuagint translation when he wrote to the Pisos?

Ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum

Reddere quae ferrum valet, exors ipsa secandi.

HOR. ARS. POET., ver. 304.

"But let me sharpen others, as the hone

Gives edge to razors, though itself have none."

FRANCIS.