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Proverbs 30:33

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30:33For as the churning76 of milk produces butter

and as punching the nose produces blood,

so stirring up anger77 produces strife.78

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  1. 76 This line provides the explanation for the instruction to keep silent in the previous verse. It uses two images to make the point, and in so doing repeats two words throughout. The first is the word מִיץ (mits), which is translated (in sequence) “churning,” “punching,” and “stirring up.” The form is a noun, and 568 suggests translating it as “squeezing” in all three places, even in the last where it describes the pressure or the insistence on strife. This noun occurs only here. The second repeated word, the verb יוֹצִיא (yotsir), also occurs three times; it is the Hiphil imperfect, meaning “produces” (i.e., causes to go out).
  2. 77 There is a subtle wordplay here with the word for anger: It is related to the word for nose in the preceding colon.
  3. 78 The analogy indicates that continuously pressing certain things will yield results, some good, some bad. So pressing anger produces strife. The proverb advises people to strive for peace and harmony through humility and righteousness. To do that will require “letting up” on anger.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For pressing milk produces curds,

pressing the nose produces blood,

and pressing anger produces strife.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For as churning cream produces butter,

and as twisting the nose produces blood,

so stirring up anger produces strife.”

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For the churning of milk produces butter,

and twisting a nose draws blood,

and stirring up anger produces strife.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

As the beating of cream yields butter

and striking the nose causes bleeding,

so stirring up anger causes quarrels.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For pressing milk produces curd,

and pressing the nose produces blood,

so pressing anger produces strife.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter,

And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood:

So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

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