Proverbs 26:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the month of fools

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Like a thorn that goes [without being felt] into the hand of a drunken man, so is a proverb in the mouth of a [self-confident] fool.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Common English Bible

⁹ Like a thorny bush in the hand of a drunk, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ In the manner of a thorn, if it were to spring up from the hand of a drunkard, so also is a parable in the mouth of the foolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:9 Cross References

Proverbs 23:35

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Proverbs 26:10

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

Proverbs 26:8

As a bag of gems in a heap of stones, So is he that giveth honour to a fool.