箴言 26:19

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Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Like a madman shooting deadly, burning arrows ¹⁹ is the one who tricks a neighbor and then says, "I was just joking."

Bible Verse Review
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and: Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 14:9, Proverbs 15:21, Ephesians 5:4, 2 Peter 2:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:2 - deceived 2 Samuel 2:14 - play before

Cross-References

Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "What have you done to us? One of our men might have had sexual relations with your wife. Then we would have been guilty of a great sin."

Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech warned everyone, "Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death."

Song of Solomon 4:15
You are like a garden fountain— a well of fresh water flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

John 7:38
If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person's heart, as the Scripture says."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour,.... By telling him a lie; or by reporting false things concerning him; or by cheating him in trade and commerce; or by taking his goods privately from him; and, when caught in either of these,

and saith, Am not I in sport? do not be angry, I designed no hurt; it is all in jest, a mere joke: but, had he not been apprehended, it would have been in earnest, as he was. This is only an excuse, and as absurd an one as if a man should set fire to his neighbour's house and barns, or throw arrows at him, or strike him with any instrument of death, as the sword, &c. and then say he was only in jest, or pretend madness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The teacher cuts off the plea which people make when they have hurt their neighbor by lies, that they “did not mean mischief,” that they were “only in fun.” Such jesting is like that of the madman flinging firebrands or arrows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 26:19. Am not I in sport? — How many hearts have been made sad, and how many reputations have been slain, by this kind of sport! "I designed no harm by what I said;" "It was only in jest," &c. Sportive as such persons may think their conduct to be, it is as ruinous as that of the madman who shoots arrows, throws firebrands, and projects in all directions instruments of death, so that some are wounded, some burnt, and some slain.