Dishonest Scales
Proverbs 11:26
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
- KJV
- He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
- WEB
- People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
- ASV
- He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse him; But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
- LSV
- Whoever is withholding grain, the people execrate him, || And a blessing [is] for the head of him who is selling.
- YLT
- Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing [is] for the head of him who is selling.
- DBY
- He that withholdeth corn, the people curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
- DRC
- He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.
- GNV
- He that withdraweth the corne, the people will curse him: but blessing shalbe vpon the head of him that selleth corne.
- JPS
- He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
- LXXE
- May he that hoards corn leave it to the nation: but blessing be on the head of him that gives it.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מֹ֣נֵֽעַ בָּ֭ר יִקְּבֻ֣הוּ לְא֑וֹם וּ֝בְרָכָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ מַשְׁבִּֽיר׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὁ συνέχων σῖτον ὑπολείποιτο αὐτὸν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν· εὐλογία δὲ εἰς κεφαλὴν τοῦ μεταδιδόντος.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
- Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
- Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah…
- Proverbs 24:24Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
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