Proverbs 26:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The legs of the lame are not equal: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Like the legs of a lame man which hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of a fool.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The legs of the lame hang loose; So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Common English Bible

⁷ As legs dangle from a disabled person, so does a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ In the manner of a lame man who has beautiful legs to no purpose, so also is a parable unfit for the mouth of the foolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:7 Cross References

Psalm 64:8

wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.

Proverbs 17:7

4 The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: before he suffereth reproach he forsaketh judgment.

Proverbs 26:6

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

Proverbs 26:8

5 The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his mouth.

Proverbs 26:9

6 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.

Luke 4:23

1 And he went down into Capharnaum, a city of Galilee, and there he taught them on the sabbath days.