Spreuken 26:17

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Een die een hond bij de oren pakt--een voorbijganger die zich mengt in een twist die hem niet aangaat.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Wie voorbijgaat, en zich mengt in een vreemden twist, die is als een, die een hond bij de oren trekt.

Staten Vertaling
De voorbijgaande, die zich vertoornt in een twist, die hem niet aangaat, is gelijk die een hond bij de oren grijpt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

passeth: Proverbs 17:11, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 20:3, Luke 12:14, 2 Timothy 2:23, 2 Timothy 2:24

meddleth: or, is enraged

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 14:10 - why shouldest 2 Chronicles 25:19 - why shouldest Proverbs 6:14 - soweth Proverbs 18:1 - intermeddleth John 8:6 - as though

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him,.... One that going along the streets, and passing by the door, where two or more persons are quarrelling, and he thrusts himself in and intermeddles in the affair he has no concern in; and interests himself in the cause of the quarrel he has nothing to do with, on account of acquaintance, relation, or office; and especially when, instead of being a mediator and peacemaker, he takes on one side, and acts the angry part, as Aben Ezra interprets the word rendered "meddleth"; blows things up into a greater flame, and enrages the one against the other. Such a man

[is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears; which are short, and difficult to be held, and tender; and therefore cannot bear to be held by them, especially to be pulled and lugged by them, and which is very provoking; and as such a man has work enough to do to hold him, so he is in danger of being bitten by him, at least when he is forced to let go his hold: and so it is with a man that interferes in a quarrel in a furious manner; it is much if one or other of the contending parties do not fall upon him and abuse him. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "as he that holdeth the tail of a dog."

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 26:17. He that passeth by — This proverb stands true ninety-nine times out of a hundred, where people meddle with domestic broils, or differences between men and their wives.