Proverbs 26:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 3 The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.

Common English Bible

⁶ Sending messages with a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking down violence.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Whoever sends words by a foolish messenger has lame feet and drinks iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.

Proverbs 26:6 Cross References

Proverbs 10:26

A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.

Proverbs 13:17

4 He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 25:13

0 And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

Proverbs 26:5

2 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 26:7

4 As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

Numbers 13:31

Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?