Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Useless are the legs of the lame, and a proverb, in the mouth of a dullard.
New American Standard Bible
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
King James Version
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Holman Bible
is like lame legs that hang limp.
International Standard Version
Useless legs to the lame that's what a proverb quoted by a fool is.
A Conservative Version
The legs of a lame man hang loose. So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
American Standard Version
The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Amplified
Like the legs which are useless to the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].
Bible in Basic English
The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.
Darby Translation
The legs of the lame hang loose; so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Julia Smith Translation
The legs of the lame were weak, and a parable in the mouth of the foolish.
King James 2000
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] legs that hang limp from a lame person, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Modern King James verseion
The legs of the lame are not equal; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as in a lame man his legs are not equal, even so is a parable in the fool's mouth.
NET Bible
Like legs that hang limp from the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
New Heart English Bible
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Webster
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
World English Bible
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Youngs Literal Translation
Weak have been the two legs of the lame, And a parable in the mouth of fools.
Interlinear
Dalal
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
6 One who cutteth off feet, one who drinketh down wrong, is he who sendeth a message by the hand of a dullard. 7 Useless are the legs of the lame, and a proverb, in the mouth of a dullard. 8 Like tying a stone to a sling, so, is he that giveth honour, to a dullard.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 26:9
A brier cometh into the hand of a drunken-man, a proverb into the mouth of dullards.
Psalm 50:16-21
But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth?
Psalm 64:8
When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.
Proverbs 17:7
Unseemly in an unworthy man, is the lip of excellence, much more, in one of noble mind, the lip of falsehood.
Matthew 7:4-5
Or how wilt thou say unto thy brother, Let me cast the mote out of thine eye, - when 1o! a beam, is in thine own eye?
Luke 4:23
And he said unto them - By all means, ye will speak to me this similitude: Physician! heal, thyself, - Whatsoever things we have heard of coming to pass in Capernaum, do here also, in thine own country.