Logos Bible Study

Proverbs 25:8

New American Standard Bible (1995)Other versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

8Do not go out ahastily to 1argue your case;

2Otherwise, what will you do in 3the end,

When your neighbor humiliates you?

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. 1Lit contend
  2. 2Lit Lest
  3. 3Lit its

Cross references

  1. aProv 17:14; Matt 5:25

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

do not hastily bring into court,

for what will you do in the end,

when your neighbor puts you to shame?

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.