Proverbs 20:26

In 11 translations

BSB

A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.

KJV

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

WEB

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

ASV

A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing-wheel over them.

LSV

A wise king is scattering the wicked, || And turns the wheel back on them.

YLT

A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.

DBY

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

DRC

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.

GNV

A wise King scattereth the wicked, and causeth the wheele to turne ouer them.

JPS

A wise king sifteth the wicked, and turneth the wheel over them.

LXXE

A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מְזָרֶ֣ה רְ֭שָׁעִים מֶ֣לֶךְ חָכָ֑ם וַיָּ֖שֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם אוֹפָֽן׃

LXX-Br

Λικμήτωρ ἀσεβῶν βασιλεὺς σοφὸς, καὶ ἐπιβαλεῖ αὐτοῖς τροχόν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
• 2 Samuel 12:31David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops…
• 2 Samuel 4:9–12But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress, when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he…
• Psalms 101:5–8Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure. My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the…
• Isaiah 28:27–28Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly…

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