New Revised Standard Version
A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.

Contemporary English Version
A wise ruler severely punishes every criminal.

New American Bible
A wise king winnows the wicked, and threshes them under the cartwheel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.

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Proverbs 20:8 The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look.

2 Samuel 4:9-12 But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress, . . .

Psalm 101:5-8 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat. . . .

bringeth

2 Samuel 12:31 And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and made them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:27,28 For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff. . . .