Luc 14:29

Louis Segond

de peur qu'après avoir posé les fondements, il ne puisse l'achever, et que tous ceux qui le verront ne se mettent à le railler,

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
De peur qu'après en avoir jeté le fondement, et n'ayant pu achever, tous ceux qui le verront ne commencent à se moquer de lui;

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
De peur, qu'après qu'il en aura posé les fondements, et qu'il n'aura pu achever, tous ceux qui le verront ne viennent à se moquer de lui, et ne disent:

Darby's French Translation
de peur que, en ayant jeté le fondement et n'ayant pu l'achever, tous ceux qui le voient ne se mettent à se moquer de lui, disant:

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.