Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death New Living Translation Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon English Standard Version Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death Berean Standard Bible Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, King James Bible As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, New King James Version Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, New American Standard Bible Like a maniac who shoots Flaming arrows, arrows, and death, NASB 1995 Like a madman who throws Firebrands, arrows and death, NASB 1977 Like a madman who throws Firebrands, arrows and death, Legacy Standard Bible Like a madman who shoots Firebrands, arrows, and death, Amplified Bible Like a madman who throws Firebrands, arrows, and death, Christian Standard Bible Like a madman who throws flaming darts and deadly arrows, Holman Christian Standard Bible Like a madman who throws flaming darts and deadly arrows, American Standard Version As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death, Contemporary English Version It's no crazier to shoot sharp and flaming arrows English Revised Version As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death; GOD'S WORD® Translation Like a madman who shoots flaming arrows, arrows, and death, International Standard Version Like the maniac who shoots fiery darts and deadly arrows— Majority Standard Bible Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, NET Bible Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows, New Heart English Bible Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, Webster's Bible Translation As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death, World English Bible Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAs [one] pretending to be feeble, "" Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, Young's Literal Translation As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, Smith's Literal Translation As a madman casting fiery darts, arrows and death, Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAs he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death : Catholic Public Domain Version Just as he is guilty who let loose the arrows and the lances unto death, New American Bible Like a crazed archer scattering firebrands and deadly arrows, New Revised Standard Version Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleLike haughty men who utter words sharp and deadly as arrows, Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Just as a braggart casts words like sharp arrows of death OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death; Brenton Septuagint Translation As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Similitudes and Instructions…17Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own. 18Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, 19so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”… Cross References Ephesians 5:4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. Matthew 12:36-37 But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. / For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” James 3:5-6 In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze. / The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. Colossians 3:8 But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 1 Peter 3:10 For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. Romans 1:29-30 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. Galatians 5:19-21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 2 Timothy 3:2-4 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, / traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, Matthew 5:22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell. Psalm 52:2-4 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. / You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah / You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. Psalm 64:3-4 who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, / ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear. Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue. Psalm 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. Psalm 120:2-3 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. / What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue? Treasury of Scripture As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, firebrands is flames or sparks Jump to Previous Arrows Casteth Casting Deadly Death Feeble Firebrands Fire-Brands Flaming Head Mad Madman Pretending Sends Shooting Shoots Sparks Sticks ThrowsJump to Next Arrows Casteth Casting Deadly Death Feeble Firebrands Fire-Brands Flaming Head Mad Madman Pretending Sends Shooting Shoots Sparks Sticks ThrowsProverbs 26 1. observations about fools13. about sluggards 17. and about contentious busybodies Like a madman The Hebrew word for "madman" is "מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ" (mithlahleah), which conveys a sense of someone who is out of control or acting irrationally. In the ancient Near Eastern context, madness was often associated with divine judgment or a loss of divine favor. This phrase sets the tone for the verse, illustrating the chaotic and dangerous nature of the actions being described. The imagery of a madman evokes a sense of unpredictability and recklessness, reminding us of the importance of self-control and wisdom in our actions. shooting firebrands and deadly arrows "Cum jocus est verus, jocus est malus atque severus," Septuagint, "Even as those who are under medical treatment (ἱώμενοι) throw words at men, and he who first meets the word will be overthrown; so are all they that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are seen, say, I did it in jest." As insane persons who abuse and ill treat their physicians are excused by reason of their infirmity, so those who injure friends in secret try to excuse themselves when found out by alleging that they were only joking. Hebrew Like a madmanכְּֽ֭מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ (kə·miṯ·lah·lê·ah) Preposition-k | Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 3856: To be rabid, to languish shooting הַיֹּרֶ֥ה (hay·yō·reh) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach firebrands זִקִּ֗ים (ziq·qîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2131: What leaps forth, flash of fire, a burning arrow, a bond and deadly וָמָֽוֶת׃ (wā·mā·weṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin arrows, חִצִּ֥ים (ḥiṣ·ṣîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear Links Proverbs 26:18 NIVProverbs 26:18 NLT Proverbs 26:18 ESV Proverbs 26:18 NASB Proverbs 26:18 KJV Proverbs 26:18 BibleApps.com Proverbs 26:18 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 26:18 Chinese Bible Proverbs 26:18 French Bible Proverbs 26:18 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 26:18 Like a madman who shoots firebrands arrows (Prov. 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