Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
A wise king sifts the wicked, crushing them with the threshing wheel.
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
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].
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 trap for a person to declare quickly, "This is sacred," and only later to have second thoughts about the vows. 26 A wise king sifts the wicked, crushing them with the threshing wheel. 27 A person's spirit is the lamp of the LORD; it searches throughout one's innermost being.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:8
A king sits on a throne of justice, sifting out all sorts of evil with his glance.
2 Samuel 4:9-12
David responded to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite: "As the LORD lives, who has saved my life in every adversity,
2 Samuel 12:31
brought back the people who had lived in it, placing them under conscripted labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. He did this to every Ammonite city, and then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
Psalm 101:5-8
I will destroy the one who secretly slanders a friend. I will not allow the proud and haughty to prevail.
Isaiah 28:27-28
For caraway is not threshed with a sharp sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin. Instead, caraway is winnowed with a stick, and cumin with a rod.