Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink, so also does a little foolishness to one's reputation of wisdom and honor.

New American Standard Bible

Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor.

King James Version

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

Holman Bible

Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil ferment and stink;
so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

A Conservative Version

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor, [so] a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

American Standard Version

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor;'so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Amplified

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give off a foul odor; so a little foolishness [in one who is esteemed] outweighs wisdom and honor.

Bible in Basic English

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

Darby Translation

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink and ferment; so a little folly is weightier than wisdom and honour.

Julia Smith Translation

Flies of death will cause the oil of the perfume to stink, it will ferment: the preciousness of wisdom above the honor of the least folly.

King James 2000

Dead flies cause the ointment of the perfumer to send forth a foul odor: so does a little folly to him that is respected for wisdom and honor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Dead flies cause a bad smell [and] ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Modern King James verseion

As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than honor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Dead flies corrupt sweet ointment and make it to stink. Even so, oft times, he that hath been had in estimation for wisdom and honour is abhorred because of a little foolishness.

NET Bible

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

New Heart English Bible

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

The Emphasized Bible

Dead flies, cause to stink and ferment, the oil of the perfumer, - More costly than wisdom or honour, is a little folly.

Webster

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth an offensive odor: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.

World English Bible

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Youngs Literal Translation

Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom -- By reason of honour -- a little folly!

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English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

זבוּב 
Z@buwb 
fly
Usage: 2

שׁמן 
Shemen 
Usage: 193

of the apothecary
רקח 
Raqach 
Usage: 8

to send forth
נבע 
Naba` 
Usage: 11

בּאשׁ 
Ba'ash 
Usage: 17

so doth a little
מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

שׂכלוּת סכלוּת 
Cikluwth 
Usage: 7

חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

References

Morish

Fly

Smith

Watsons

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Burden Of Folly

1 As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink, so also does a little foolishness to one's reputation of wisdom and honor. 2 A wise man's heart tends toward his right, but a fool's heart tends toward his left.



Cross References

Exodus 30:25

You are to make them into a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture made by a perfumer. It is to be a holy anointing oil.

Exodus 30:34-35

The LORD told Moses, "Take for yourself spices: stacte, onycha, galbanum, and spices with pure frankincense, all in equal amounts.

2 Chronicles 19:2

where Hanani's son Jehu, the seer, went out to meet him. He asked King Jehoshaphat, "Should you be helping those who are wicked, yes or no? Should you love those who hate the LORD? Wrath is headed your way directly from the LORD because of this.

Nehemiah 6:13

He had been hired to make me afraid so I would sin by doing what he suggested. Then they could create a slanderous report to use against me.

Nehemiah 13:26

Didn't Solomon, king of Israel, sin by doing these things, even though among many nations there was no king like him who was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel? Even so, foreign women caused him to sin.

Matthew 5:13-16

"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

Galatians 2:12-14

Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

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