Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

New American Standard Bible

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

King James Version

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Holman Bible

One who rebukes a person will later find more favor
than one who flatters with his tongue.

International Standard Version

Whoever rebukes a man will later on find more favor than someone who flatters with his words.

American Standard Version

He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favor Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Amplified


He who [appropriately] reprimands a [wise] man will afterward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Bible in Basic English

He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.

Darby Translation

He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Julia Smith Translation

He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.

King James 2000

He that rebukes a man shall find more favor afterwards than he that flatters with the tongue.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He who rebukes a person will afterward find [more] favor than he who flatters [with the] tongue.

Modern King James verseion

He who rebukes a man shall afterwards find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that rebuketh a man, shall find more favour at the last, than he that flattereth him.

NET Bible

The one who reproves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.

New Heart English Bible

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

The Emphasized Bible

He that reproveth a man, shall, afterwards, find more, favour, than he that useth a flattering tongue.

Webster

He that rebuketh a man afterward shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue.

World English Bible

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יכח 
Yakach 
Usage: 59

a man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

References

Context Readings

All About Life

22 He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him. 23 He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue. 24 He who robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.



Cross References

Proverbs 27:5-6

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

Matthew 18:15

But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother.

2 Samuel 12:7

And Nathan said to David, Thou are the man. Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul.

1 Kings 1:23

And they told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 1:32-40

And king David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

Psalm 141:5

Let a righteous man smite me, [as] a kindness. And let him reprove me, [as] oil upon the head. Let not my head refuse it. For even in their wickedness my prayer shall continue.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

Galatians 2:11

But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to the face, because he was blameworthy.

2 Peter 3:15-16

And consider the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,

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