Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Like the maniac who shoots fiery darts and deadly arrows
A Conservative Version
As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,
American Standard Version
As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,
Amplified
Like a madman who throws
Firebrands, arrows, and death,
Bible in Basic English
As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
Darby Translation
As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Julia Smith Translation
As a madman casting fiery darts, arrows and death,
King James 2000
As a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
Modern King James verseion
or like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as one shooteth deadly arrows and darts out of a privy place, even so doth a dissembler with his neighbour.
New Heart English Bible
Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
The Emphasized Bible
As a madman throwing firebrands, arrows and death,
Webster
As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death,
World English Bible
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
Youngs Literal Translation
As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
17 Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own. 18 Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows, 19 so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"
Cross References
Genesis 49:23
The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.
Proverbs 7:23
till an arrow pierces his liver -- like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Proverbs 25:18
Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.
Isaiah 50:11
Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk in the light of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! This is what you will receive from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.