Proverbs 27:16 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, And the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Whoever attempts to restrain [a contentious woman] might as well try to stop the wind–his right hand encounters oil [and she slips through his fingers].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ anyone who can control her can control the wind or pick up oil in his hand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ He who would restrain her, he is like one who would grasp the wind, or who would gather together oil with his right hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand.

Proverbs 27:16 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

John 12:3

Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.