Proverbs 20:26 - Revised Standard Version

A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A wise king scattereth the wicked, And bringeth the wheel over them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

A wise king winnows out the wicked [from among the good] and brings the threshing wheel over them [to separate the chaff from the grain].

American Standard Version (1901)

A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing-wheel over them.

Common English Bible

A wise king sifts out the wicked, and runs them over with a wheel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A wise king scatters the impious and bends an archway over them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.

Proverbs 20:26 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Proverbs 20:8

A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.

Ruth 3:2

Now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.