Proverbs 26:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Like the sparrow in its flitting, like the swallow in its flight, a curse uncalled-for never lands.

Cross References

Numbers 23:8

How can I lay a curse on the one whom God has not cursed? How denounce the one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Psalm 109:28

Though they curse, may you bless; arise, shame them, that your servant may rejoice.

Nehemiah 13:2

for they did not meet the Israelites with food and water, but they hired Balaam to curse them, though our God turned the curse into a blessing.”

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

1 Samuel 17:43

He said to David, “Am I a dog that you come against me with a staff?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird far from the nest so is anyone far from home.

Isaiah 16:2

Like flushed birds, like scattered nestlings, Are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord has paid you back for all the blood shed from the family of Saul, whom you replaced as king, and the Lord has handed over the kingdom to your son Absalom. And now look at you: you suffer ruin because you are a man of blood.”