Proverbes 25:8

Darby's French Translation

Ne sors pas à la hâte pour contester, de peur que tu ne saches que faire à la fin, lorsque ton prochain t'aura rendu confus.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Ne te h�te pas de sortir pour quereller, de peur que tu [ne saches] que faire � la fin, apr�s que ton prochain t'aura rendu confus.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ne te h�te pas de sortir pour plaider, de peur qu'� la fin tu ne saches que faire, apr�s que ton prochain t'aura rendu confus.

Louis Segond (1910)
Ne te h�te pas d'entrer en contestation, De peur qu'� la fin tu ne saches que faire, Lorsque ton prochain t'aura outrag�.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hastily: Proverbs 17:14, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 30:33, 2 Samuel 2:14-16, 2 Samuel 2:26, 2 Kings 14:8-12, Luke 14:31, Luke 14:32

what: Proverbs 14:12, Jeremiah 5:31, Matthew 5:25

Reciprocal: Judges 11:12 - sent messengers 1 Samuel 25:13 - Gird ye 2 Samuel 2:27 - unless 2 Samuel 10:6 - Syrians of Bethrehob 2 Samuel 20:1 - he blew 1 Kings 3:25 - Divide 2 Kings 14:10 - why shouldest Proverbs 3:30 - General Proverbs 13:10 - with Proverbs 14:29 - but Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 20:3 - an Proverbs 20:18 - and Luke 12:58 - thou goest Acts 12:20 - but Acts 19:36 - ye ought 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go not forth hastily to strive,.... To go to law with a neighbour; think well of it beforehand; consider the nature of the cause, whether right or wrong; or whether it is a matter of such moment as to go to law about; whether it will not be deemed a frivolous and vexatious suit; whether able to bear the expenses of it, and what may probably be the success of it;

lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof; for a livelihood, having spent all thy substance in the lawsuit, and so reduced to poverty as not to know how to live, or how and where to show thy face, through the disgrace that shall fall upon time by losing the cause;

when that neighbour hath put thee to shame; in open court, and proved himself to be in the right, and that thou art in the wrong; himself an honest man, and thee a litigious person.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The general meaning is: It is dangerous to plunge into litigation. At all times, there is the risk of failure, and, if we fail, of being at the mercy of an irritated adversary. Without the italics, the clause may be rendered, “lest thou do something (i. e., something humiliating and vexatious) at the end thereof.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 25:8. Go not forth hastily to strive — לרב lerib, to enter into a lawsuit. Keep from this pit of the bottomless deep, unless urged by the direst necessity.