Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on 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.
A Conservative Version
A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
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].
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 danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them. 26 A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them. 27 The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:8
A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
2 Samuel 4:9-12
And David made answer to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, By the living Lord, who has kept me safe from all my trouble,
2 Samuel 12:31
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28:27-28
For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.