◄ Proverbs 26:10 ►
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Good News Translation
An employer who hires any fool that comes along is only hurting everybody concerned.

New Revised Standard Version
Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

Contemporary English Version
It's no smarter to shoot arrows at every passerby than it is to hire a bunch of worthless nobodies.

New American Bible
An archer wounding all who pass by is anyone who hires a drunken fool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.

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Proverbs 11:31 He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

Romans 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his works.

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
…9As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 10Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.11As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.…
Cross References
Proverbs 26:9
As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

Proverbs 26:9
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