Matthieu 7:4

Darby's French Translation

Ou comment dis-tu à ton frère: Permets, j'ôterai le fétu de ton oeil; et voici, la poutre est dans ton oeil?

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Ou comment dis-tu à ton frère? Permets que j'ôte de ton œil ce fétu, et voilà, [tu as] une poutre dans ton œil.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ou comment dis-tu à ton frère: Permets que j'ôte cette paille de ton œil, et voici une poutre est dans le tien?

Louis Segond (1910)
Ou comment peux-tu dire à ton frère: Laisse-moi ôter une paille de ton oeil, toi qui as une poutre dans le tien?

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Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:7 - so Matthew 23:24 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother?.... This is not so much an interrogation, as an expression of admiration, at the front and impudence of such censorious remarkers, and rigid observators; who not content to point at the faults of others, take upon them to reprove them in a very magisterial way: and it is as if Christ had said, with what face canst thou say to thy friend or neighbour,

let me pull out the mote out of thine eye? give me leave to rebuke thee sharply for thy sin, as it deserves,

and behold a beam is in thine own eye; thou art guilty of a far greater iniquity: astonishing impudence! Art thou so blind, as not to see and observe thy viler wickedness? Or which, if conscious of, how canst thou prevail upon thyself to take upon thee to reprove and censure others? Dost thou think thy brother cannot see thy beam? And may he not justly retort thine iniquities upon thee, which exceed his? and then what success canst thou promise thyself? Such persons are very unfit to be reprovers of others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 7:4. Or how wilt thou say — That man is utterly unfit to show the way of life to others who is himself walking in the way of death.