Proverbs 25:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Rush not forth soon to quarrel [before magistrates or elsewhere], lest you know not what to do in the end when your neighbor has put you to shame. [Prov. 17:14; Matt. 5:25.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

Common English Bible

⁸ don’t be quick to quarrel over; what will you do in the future when your neighbor shames you?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The things that your eyes have seen, do not offer hastily in a quarrel, lest afterward you may not be able to make amends, when you have dishonored your friend.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.

Proverbs 25:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

1 Kings 3:25

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there be quarrelling.

Proverbs 18:6

A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.

Proverbs 30:33

For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Matthew 5:25

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.