Proverbs 20:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁶ A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing wheel over them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ A wise king scattereth the wicked, And bringeth the wheel over them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ 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)

²⁶ A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing-wheel over them.

Common English Bible

²⁶ A wise king sifts out the wicked, and runs them over with a wheel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ A wise king scatters the impious and bends an archway over them.

Proverbs 20:26 Cross References

Proverbs 20:8

A king that sitteth on the throne of judgement Scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

Ruth 3:2

And now is there not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor.