◄ Proverbs 30:33 ►
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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.

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

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that strongly squeezeth the paps 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he that strongly squeezeth the paps 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.

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Context
The Words of Agur
…32There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth. 33And he that strongly squeezeth the paps 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.
Cross References
Genesis 18:8
He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.

Proverbs 10:12
In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.

Proverbs 29:22
A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

Proverbs 31:1
The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him.

Proverbs 30:32
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