Lukáš 14:29

Nova Smlouva (NT only)

Jinak by se mu všichni, kteří to vidí, začali posmívat, když by položil základ a nemohl by stavbu dokončit,

Parallel Translations

Bible kralická (1613)
Aby snad, když by položil grunt, a nemohl dokonati, nepřišlo na to, že všickni to vidouce, počali by se jemu posmívati,

Český ekumenický překlad
Jinak - až položí základ a nebude moci dokončit - vysmějí se mu všichni, kteří to uvidí.

Nova Bible Kralicka (NT only)
Aby snad, když by položil základ a nemohl [stavbu] dokončit, nezačali se mu posmívat všichni, kteří by [to] viděli,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 22:14 - I will Matthew 27:40 - that destroyest Ephesians 6:11 - able

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation,.... Has begun to build, has taken up a profession, has submitted to ordinances, and got into a church state:

and is not able to finish it; a foundation may be laid, and the building may never be finished, because the foundation is not laid right; was it, it would continue, and the building go on, and at last be finished; though no man is able to finish it of himself, yet those hands which have laid the foundation, will raise up the superstructure, and complete the whole building, through the power and efficacy of divine grace: but where there is a beginning, and which at first looks well, and there is no progress, but the work is dropped and left unfinished,

all that behold it, begin to mock; as follows;

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Haply - Perhaps.

To mock him - To ridicule him. To laugh at him.