Księga Przysłów 18:19

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Skrzywdzonego brata trudniej przejednać niż zdobyć warowny gród, jego nieugiętość w sporze bywa jak rygle pałacu.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Brat obrażony jest twardszy niż miasto mocne, a zwady takowe są jako zatwory na zamkoch.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Brat krzywdą urażony trudniejszy nad miasto niedobyte, a swary są jako zawory u pałacu.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zdradzony brat jest odporniejszy niż gród warowny, a ich kłótnie – niby zawory zamku.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Brat krzywdą urażony trudniejszy nad miasto niedobyte, a swary są jako zawory u pałacu.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Brat obrażony trudniejszy do zdobycia niż warowne miasto, a spory są jak rygle w zamku.

Biblia Warszawska
Brat oszukany mocniejszy stawia opór niż warowny gród, a jego upór jest jak zasuwy pałacu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brother: Proverbs 6:19, Genesis 4:5-8, Genesis 27:41-45, Genesis 32:6-11, Genesis 37:3-5, Genesis 37:11, Genesis 37:18-27, 2 Samuel 13:22, 2 Samuel 13:28, 1 Kings 2:23-25, 1 Kings 12:16, 2 Chronicles 13:17, Acts 15:39

than: Proverbs 16:32

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:11 - Deliver Judges 12:6 - there fell Judges 20:48 - smote them 1 Samuel 17:28 - Eliab's anger 2 Samuel 19:43 - the words Acts 7:26 - ye are 1 Peter 3:1 - won

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city,.... A fortified city may sooner be taken by an enemy, than one brother offended can be reconciled to another; their resentments against each other are keener than against another person that has offended them; and their love being turned into hatred, it is more bitter; and it is more difficult to compose differences between brethren than between enemies; wherefore such should take care that they fall not out by the way: this is true of brethren in a natural sense; as the cases of Abel and Cain, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brethren, Amnon and Absalom, and others, show; and of brethren in a spiritual sense, as Paul and Barnabas, Luther and Calvin, and others;

and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle: which cannot be easily broken or cut asunder: so contentions, especially those among brethren, are with great difficulty made to cease, and their differences composed; they will stand it out against one another as long as a strong city, or a barred castle, against an enemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meaning of the first clause is obtained in the King James Version by the insertion of the words in italics, and it seems on the whole to be the best. The Septuagint and Vulgate give an entirely different rendering, based, apparently, upon a different text.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:19. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city — Almost all the versions agree in the following reading: "A brother assisted by a brother, is like a fortified city; and their decisions are like the bars of a city." Coverdale is both plain and terse: "The unitie of brethren is stronger then a castell, and they that holde together are like the barre of a palace." The fable of the dying father, his sons, and the bundle of faggots, illustrates this proverb. Unity among brethren makes them invincible; small things grow great by concord. If we take the words according to the common version, we see them express what, alas! we know to be too generally true: that when brothers fall out, it is with extreme difficulty that they can be reconciled. And fraternal enmities are generally strong and inveterate.