Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?
New American Standard Bible
When your neighbor humiliates you?
King James Version
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Holman Bible
Otherwise, what will you do afterward
if your opponent
International Standard Version
don't be in a hurry to argue in court. Otherwise, what will you do later on when your neighbor humiliates you?
A Conservative Version
Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?
American Standard Version
Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.
Amplified
Do not rush out to argue your case [before magistrates or judges];
Otherwise what will you do in the end [when your case is lost and]
When your neighbor (opponent) humiliates you?
Bible in Basic English
Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?
Darby Translation
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not go forth hastily to strive, lest what thou shalt do in its latter state in thy neighbor putting thee to shame.
King James 2000
Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
Lexham Expanded Bible
do not hastily bring out to court, for what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?
Modern King James verseion
Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.
NET Bible
Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?
New Heart English Bible
Do not be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
The Emphasized Bible
Do not go forth to strive in haste, - lest thou know not what to do in the latter end thereof, when thy neighbour, hath put thee to shame.
Webster
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.
World English Bible
Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
Themes
Adjudication at law » To be avoided
Compromise » Before litigation, encouraged
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
More Proverbs Of Solomon
7 For better that he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen. 8 Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? 9 Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,
Cross References
Matthew 5:25
'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.
Proverbs 18:6
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
Proverbs 30:33
For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?
Luke 14:31-32
'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?
2 Samuel 2:14-16
And Abner saith unto Joab, 'Let the youths rise, I pray thee, and they play before us;' and Joab saith, 'Let them rise.'
2 Samuel 2:26
and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, 'For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'
2 Kings 14:8-12
then hath Amaziah sent messengers unto Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, 'Come, we look one another in the face.'