Proverbs 26:2

A Conservative Version

As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

Cross References

Numbers 23:8

How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom LORD has not defied?

Psalm 109:28

Let them curse, but bless thou. When they arise, they shall be put to shame, but thy servant shall rejoice.

Nehemiah 13:2

because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them. However our God turned the curse into a blessing.

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that LORD will reward me good for [his] cursing of me this day.

1 Samuel 17:43

And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

Isaiah 16:2

For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

2 Samuel 16:8

LORD has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead thou have reigned. And LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son, and, behold, thou are [taken] in thine own mischief because thou