Proverbs 30:33
New International Version
For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”

New Living Translation
As the beating of cream yields butter and striking the nose causes bleeding, so stirring up anger causes quarrels.

English Standard Version
For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Berean Standard Bible
For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”

King James Bible
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

New King James Version
For as the churning of milk produces butter, And wringing the nose produces blood, So the forcing of wrath produces strife.

New American Standard Bible
For the churning of milk produces butter, And pressing the nose produces blood; So the churning of anger produces strife.

NASB 1995
For the churning of milk produces butter, And pressing the nose brings forth blood; So the churning of anger produces strife.

NASB 1977
For the churning of milk produces butter, And pressing the nose brings forth blood; So the churning of anger produces strife.

Legacy Standard Bible
For pressing milk brings forth butter, And pressing the nose brings forth blood; And pressing anger brings forth strife.

Amplified Bible
Surely the churning of milk produces butter, And wringing the nose produces blood; So the churning of anger produces strife.

Christian Standard Bible
For the churning of milk produces butter, and twisting a nose draws blood, and stirring up anger produces strife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the churning of milk produces butter, and twisting a nose draws blood, and stirring up anger produces strife.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
From the fat of the milk butter comes forth, but if you squeeze your hand upon wheat, blood will come forth, so from contention among people judgment goes forth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if thou wing one's nostrils there shall come out blood: so if thou extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.

Contemporary English Version
If you churn milk you get butter; if you pound on your nose, you get blood--and if you stay angry, you get in trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that strongly squeezeth the papa to bring out milk, straineth out butter: and he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth out blood: and he that provoketh wrath bringeth forth strife.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As churning milk produces butter and punching a nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces a fight.

Good News Translation
If you churn milk, you get butter. If you hit someone's nose, it bleeds. If you stir up anger, you get into trouble.

International Standard Version
Just as whipping milk produces butter, and twisting the nose causes bleeding, so also stirring up anger produces contention.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the churning of milk bringeth forth curd, And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Literal Standard Version
For the churning of milk brings out butter, | And the wringing of the nose brings out blood, | And the forcing of anger brings out strife!

Majority Standard Bible
For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”

New American Bible
For as the churning of milk produces curds, and the pressing of the nose produces blood, the churning of anger produces strife.

NET Bible
For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

New Revised Standard Version
For as pressing milk produces curds, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife.

New Heart English Bible
For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."

Webster's Bible Translation
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

World English Bible
For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood, so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

Young's Literal Translation
For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!

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Context
The Words of Agur
32If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth. 33For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”

Cross References
Genesis 18:8
Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

Proverbs 31:1
These are the words of King Lemuel--the burden that his mother taught him:


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Proverbs 30
1. Agur's confession of his faith
7. The two points of his prayer
10. The meanest are not to be wronged
11. Four wicked generations
15. Four things insatiable
24. four things exceeding wise
29. Four things stately
32. Wrath is to be prevented














(33) Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter. . . .--The same word is used in the Hebrew for the three which appear in the Authorised Version, "churning," "wringing," and "forcing." The sense will be, "For (as) pressure on milk produces butter, and pressure on the nose produces blood, (so) pressure on wrath (violence towards a hot-tempered person) produces anger." (Comp. Proverbs 15:1.)

Verse 33. - Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter. The same word, mits, is used for "churning," "wringing," and "forcing;" it means "pressure" in all the cases, though with a different application. At the present day milk is churned in the East by enclosing it in a leathern bottle, which is then suspended in the air and jerked to and fro till the butter is produced. This process could scarcely be called "pressure," though, possibly, the squeezing of the udder is meant, as the Septuagint and Vulgate take it. But most probably the reference is to cheese, the term used, chemah, being applied indifferently to curdled milk and cheese. To produce this substance, the curdled milk is put into little baskets of rush or palm leaves, tied closely, and then pressed under heavy stones. What the proverb says is that, as the pressure applied to milk produces cheese, and as pressure applied to the nose brings blood, so the pressure of wrath bringeth forth strife; the irritation and provocation of anger occasion quarrels and contentions. They say in Malabar, remarks Lane, "Anger is a stone cast into a wasp's nest." Septuagint, "Press out milk, and there shall be butter; and if thou violently squeeze the nostrils, blood will come forth; and if thou draw forth words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes." It is the third clause which is important, and to which the others lead up; and the verse must be taken in connection with the preceding, as enforcing the duty of self-restraint and silence under certain circumstances. Some of the Fathers, commenting on the Vulgate rendering (Qui fortiter premit ubera ad eliciendum lac, exprimit butyrum; et qui vehementer emungit, elicit sanguinem), apply the passage to the handling of the Word of God. Thus St Gregory ('Moral.,' 21:3), "Divine sentences require sometimes to be viewed externally, sometimes to be explored internally. For we 'press the udder strongly' when we weigh with minute understanding the word of sacred revelation, by which way of pressing whilst we seek milk, we find butter, because, whilst we seek to be fed with but a little insight, we are anointed with the abundance of interior richness. Which, nevertheless, we ought neither to do too much, nor at all times, lest, while milk is sought for from the udder, there should follow blood. For very often, persons, whilst they sift the words of sacred revelation more than they ought, fall into a carnal apprehension. For 'he draws forth blood who wringeth violently.' Since that is rendered carnal which is perceived by an overgreat sifting of the spirit" (Oxford transl.).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

as the churning
מִ֪יץ (mîṣ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4330: Squeezing, pressing, wringing

of milk
חָלָ֡ב (ḥā·lāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2461: Milk

yields
י֘וֹצִ֤יא (yō·w·ṣî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

butter,
חֶמְאָ֗ה (ḥem·’āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2529: Curdled milk, cheese

and the twisting
וּֽמִיץ־ (ū·mîṣ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4330: Squeezing, pressing, wringing

of the nose
אַ֭ף (’ap̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

draws
י֣וֹצִיא (yō·w·ṣî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

blood,
דָ֑ם (ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

so the stirring
וּמִ֥יץ (ū·mîṣ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4330: Squeezing, pressing, wringing

of anger
אַ֝פַּ֗יִם (’ap·pa·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

brings forth
י֣וֹצִיא (yō·w·ṣî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

strife.
רִֽיב׃ (rîḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7379: Strife, dispute


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