Proverbs 20:3 It is to one's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
It is to one's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

English Standard Version
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

New American Standard Bible
Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man, But any fool will quarrel.

King James Bible
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.

International Standard Version
Avoiding strife brings a man honor, but every fool is quarrelsome.

American Standard Version
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches.

Darby Bible Translation
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.

Young's Literal Translation
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

20:1 It seems hard to believe that men of the greatest abilities, as well as the ignorant, should render themselves fools and madmen, merely for the taste or excitement produced by strong liquors. 2. How formidable kings are to those who provoke them! how much more foolish then is it to provoke the King of kings! 3. To engage in quarrels is the greatest folly that can be. Yield, and even give up just demands, for peace' sake. 4. He who labours and endures hardship in his seed-time for eternity, will be properly diligent as to his earthly business.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. to cease from strife—or, better, "to dwell from or without strife," denoting the habit of life.

fool … meddling—(Pr 17:14).