箴言 26:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

麻雀怎樣飛來飛去，燕子怎樣翻飛；照樣，無故的咒詛也不會臨到人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
麻 雀 往 来 ， 燕 子 翻 飞 ； 这 样 ， 无 故 的 咒 诅 也 必 不 临 到 。

Contextual Overview

² Curses will not harm someone who is innocent; they are like sparrows or swallows that fly around and never land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

so: Numbers 23:8, Deuteronomy 23:4, Deuteronomy 23:5, 1 Samuel 14:28, 1 Samuel 14:29, 1 Samuel 17:43, 2 Samuel 16:12, Nehemiah 13:2, Psalms 109:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:6 - I wot Numbers 23:7 - Come Deuteronomy 18:22 - shalt not 2 Samuel 16:5 - cursed Jeremiah 15:10 - curse Ezekiel 14:23 - that I have not 2 Corinthians 13:8 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day.

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 26:20
But the herdsmen of Gerar argued with them and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac named that well Argue because they argued with him.

Psalms 37:3
Trust the Lord and do good. Live in the land and feed on truth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying,.... As a bird, particularly the sparrow, as the word h is sometimes rendered, leaves its nest and wanders from it; and flies here and there, and settles nowhere; and as the swallow flies to the place from whence it came; or the wild pigeon, as some i think is meant, which flies away very swiftly: the swallow has its name in Hebrew from liberty, because it flies about boldly and freely, and makes its nest in houses, to which it goes and comes without fear;

so the curse causeless shall not come; the mouths of fools or wicked men are full of cursing and bitterness, and especially such who are advanced above others, and are set in high places; who think they have a right to swear at and curse those below them, and by this means to support their authority and power; but what signify their curses which are without a cause? they are vain and fruitless, like Shimei's cursing David; they fly away, as the above birds are said to do, and fly over the heads of those on whom they are designed to light; yea, return and fall upon the heads of those that curse, as the swallow goes to the place from whence it came; it being a bird of passage, Jeremiah 8:7; in the winter it flies away and betakes itself to some islands on rocks called from thence "chelidonian" k. According to the "Keri", or marginal reading, for here is a double reading, it may be rendered, "so the curse causeless shall come to him" l; that gives it without any reason. The Septuagint takes in both,

"so a vain curse shall not come upon any;''

what are all the anathemas of the church of Rome? who can curse whom God has not cursed? yea, such shall be cursed themselves; see

Psalms 109:17.

h כצפור "sicat passeris", Mercerus, Gejerus; "ut passer", Piscator; Schultens. i Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 1. c. 8. k Vid. Strabo. Geograph. l. 14. p. 458. Dionys. Perieg. v. 506, 507. l לו "in quempiam", V. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

i. e., “Vague as the flight of the sparrow, aimless as the wheelings of the swallow, is the causeless curse. It will never reach its goal.” The marginal reading in the Hebrew, however, gives” to him” instead of “not” or “never;” i. e., “The causeless curse, though it may pass out of our ken, like a bird’s track in the air, will come on the man who utters it.” Compare the English proverb, “Curses, like young chickens, always come home to roost.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 26:2. As the bird — צפור tsippor is taken often for the sparrow; but means generally any small bird. As the sparrow flies about the house, and the swallow emigrates to strange countries; so an undeserved malediction may flutter about the neighbourhood for a season: but in a short time it will disappear as the bird of passage; and never take effect on the innocent person against whom it was pronounced.