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Proverbs 25:8

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8wdo not hastily bring into court,1

for2 what will you do in the end,

when your neighbor puts you to shame?

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or presence of a noble, as your eyes have seen. 8Do not go hastily out to court
  2. 2Hebrew or else

Cross references

  1. wMatt. 5:25; Luke 12:58; [ch. 17:14]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

do not bring hastily to court,

for what will you do in the end

if your neighbor puts you to shame?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t take a matter to court hastily.

Otherwise, what will you do afterward

if your opponent humiliates you?

NLTNew Living Translation

don’t be in a hurry to go to court.

For what will you do in the end

if your neighbor deals you a shameful defeat?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

do not hastily bring out to court,

for what will you do at its end,

when your neighbor puts you to shame?

KJV 1900King James Version

Go not forth hastily to strive,

Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof,

When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.