箴言 25:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

不可輕率出去與人爭訟；否則，你的鄰舍若使你受辱，結果你要怎麼辦呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 要 冒 失 出 去 与 人 争 竞 ， 免 得 至 终 被 他 羞 辱 ， 你 就 不 知 道 怎 样 行 了 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ do not quickly take someone to court. What will you do later when your neighbor proves you wrong? ⁹ If you have an argument with your neighbor, don't tell other people what was said. ¹⁰ Whoever hears it might shame you, and you might not ever be respected again.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hastily: Proverbs 17:14, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 30:33, 2 Samuel 2:14-16, 2 Samuel 2:26, 2 Kings 14:8-12, Luke 14:31, Luke 14:32

what: Proverbs 14:12, Jeremiah 5:31, Matthew 5:25

Reciprocal: Judges 11:12 - sent messengers 1 Samuel 25:13 - Gird ye 2 Samuel 2:27 - unless 2 Samuel 10:6 - Syrians of Bethrehob 2 Samuel 20:1 - he blew 1 Kings 3:25 - Divide 2 Kings 14:10 - why shouldest Proverbs 3:30 - General Proverbs 13:10 - with Proverbs 14:29 - but Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 20:3 - an Proverbs 20:18 - and Luke 12:58 - thou goest Acts 12:20 - but Acts 19:36 - ye ought 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself

Cross-References

Genesis 15:15
And you, Abram, will die in peace and will be buried at an old age.

Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived to be one hundred seventy-five years old.

Genesis 25:8
He breathed his last breath and died at an old age, after a long and satisfying life.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron east of Mamre. (Ephron was the son of Zohar the Hittite.)

Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived one hundred thirty-seven years and then breathed his last breath and died.

Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau because he hunted the wild animals that Isaac enjoyed eating. But Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 25:29
One day Jacob was boiling a pot of vegetable soup. Esau came in from hunting in the fields, weak from hunger.

Genesis 35:18
Rachel gave birth to the son, but she herself died. As she lay dying, she named the boy Son of My Suffering, but Jacob called him Benjamin.

Genesis 49:29
Then Israel gave them a command and said, "I am about to die. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

Numbers 20:24
"Aaron will die. He will not enter the land that I'm giving to the Israelites, because you both acted against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go not forth hastily to strive,.... To go to law with a neighbour; think well of it beforehand; consider the nature of the cause, whether right or wrong; or whether it is a matter of such moment as to go to law about; whether it will not be deemed a frivolous and vexatious suit; whether able to bear the expenses of it, and what may probably be the success of it;

lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof; for a livelihood, having spent all thy substance in the lawsuit, and so reduced to poverty as not to know how to live, or how and where to show thy face, through the disgrace that shall fall upon time by losing the cause;

when that neighbour hath put thee to shame; in open court, and proved himself to be in the right, and that thou art in the wrong; himself an honest man, and thee a litigious person.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The general meaning is: It is dangerous to plunge into litigation. At all times, there is the risk of failure, and, if we fail, of being at the mercy of an irritated adversary. Without the italics, the clause may be rendered, “lest thou do something (i. e., something humiliating and vexatious) at the end thereof.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 25:8. Go not forth hastily to strive — לרב lerib, to enter into a lawsuit. Keep from this pit of the bottomless deep, unless urged by the direst necessity.