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Proverbs 22:10

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22:10Drive out the scorner25 and contention will leave;

strife and insults will cease.26

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Footnotes

  1. 25 This proverb, written in loose synonymous parallelism, instructs that the scorner should be removed because he causes strife. The “scorner” is לֵץ (lets), the one the book of Proverbs says cannot be changed with discipline or correction, but despises and disrupts anything that is morally or socially constructive.
  2. 26 The freely adds “when he sits in council (ἐν συνεδρίῳ, ejn sunedriō), he insults everyone.” The does not suggest that the setting is in a court of law; so the addition is highly unlikely.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,

and quarreling and abuse will cease.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;

quarrels and insults are ended.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too;

then quarreling and dishonor will cease.

NLTNew Living Translation

Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too.

Quarrels and insults will disappear.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out;

quarrel and abuse will cease.

KJV 1900King James Version

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out;

Yea, strife and reproach shall cease.