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Proverbs 26:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It is like cutting off one’s foot and drinking down violence, to send a message by a fool.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet [of satisfactory delivery] and drinks the damage. [Prov. 13:17.]

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American Standard Version (1901)

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.

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Common English Bible

Sending messages with a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking down violence.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever sends words by a foolish messenger has lame feet and drinks iniquity.

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.

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Proverbs 26:6
6 Cross References  

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.


A bad messenger brings trouble, but a faithful envoy, healing.


Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest are faithful messengers to those who send them; they refresh the spirit of their masters.


Answer fools according to their folly, lest they be wise in their own eyes.


The legs of a lame person hang limp; so does a proverb in the mouth of a fool.


Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”