Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Holman Bible
and drives the threshing wheel
International Standard Version
A wise king sifts the wicked, crushing them with the threshing wheel.
American Standard Version
A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing -wheel over them.
Amplified
A wise king sifts out the wicked [from among the good]
And drives the [threshing] wheel over them [to separate the chaff from the grain].
Bible in Basic English
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
Darby Translation
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Julia Smith Translation
A wise king scatters the unjust, and he will turn back a wheel over them.
King James 2000
A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A wise king winnows the wicked, and he will drive a wheel over them.
Modern King James verseion
A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A wise king destroyeth the ungodly, and bringeth the wheel over them.
NET Bible
A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.
New Heart English Bible
A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
The Emphasized Bible
A wise king, winnoweth out the lawless, when he hath turned over them the wheel.
Webster
A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
World English Bible
A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Youngs Literal Translation
A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.
Interlinear
Zarah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 20:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolproof Instructions
25 It is a snare to a man to say rashly, [It is] holy. And to make inquiry after vows. 26 A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them. 27 The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
2 Samuel 4:9-12
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln. And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And Dav
Psalm 101:5-8
He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
Isaiah 28:27-28
For the chick-peas are not threshed with a sharp instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the chick-peas are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.