Proverbs 26:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ The great God that formed all things Both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ [But] like an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or chance passers-by.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth a fool and he that hireth them that pass by.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Like an archer who wounds someone randomly, so is one who hires a fool or a passerby.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Judgment determines cases. And whoever imposes silence on the foolish mitigates anger.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.

Proverbs 26:10 Cross References

Proverbs 11:31

If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.

Proverbs 26:9

Like a thornbush brandished by the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Romans 2:6

He will repay according to each one’s deeds: