is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
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is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
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So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
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So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith: 'Am not I in sport?'
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Proverbs 26:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ephesians 5:4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
- Proverbs 10:23 It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
- Proverbs 14:9 Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
- Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
- 2 Peter 2:13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which dissembleth himself to be that he is not.
Which dissembleth himself to be that he is not.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 26:19 So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his…
Pro 26:19 So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Ver. 19. Am not I in jest?] The wicked man’s mirth is usually mixed with mischief. It is no sport, unless he may have the devil his play fellow - no good fellowship without horse play. Salt jests, and dry flouts, to the just grief or disgrace of another, is counted facetious and fine. But St Paul calls it foolish {a} {Eph 5:4} and further saith, that "for such things’ sake the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience." Quid mihi cum fabulis, cum iocis? saith Bernard, - What hath a Christian to do with jesting and jeering? We allow a horse to prance and skip in a pasture, which if he doth when backed by the rider, we count him an unruly and unbroken jade. So, howsoever in heathens and atheists God may wink at jocularity aud dicacity, yet he looks for better things from his own people. Credo mihi, res severa est verum gaudium, saith Seneca; True mirth is a severe business. But what a madman was Robert de Beliasme, Earl of Shrewsbury, 1111 AD, delighting to do mischief and exercise his cruelty, and then to say, Are not I in jest? An example hereof he showed upon his own son, who, being but a child, and playing with him, the father, for a pastime, put his thumb in the boy’s eyes, and thrust out the balls thereof. {b}
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{a} ευτραπελια.
{b} Speed’s Chron., 473.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That wrongs him under a false pretence of kindness…
That wrongs him under a false pretence of kindness and familiarity.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour,.... By…
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour,.... By telling him a lie; or by reporting false things concerning him; or by cheating him in trade and commerce; or by taking his goods privately from him; and, when caught in either of these,
and saith, Am not I in sport? do not be angry, I designed no hurt; it is all in jest, a mere joke: but, had he not been apprehended, it would have been in earnest, as he was. This is only an excuse, and as absurd an one as if a man should set fire to his neighbour's house and barns, or throw arrows at him, or strike him with any instrument of death, as the sword, &c. and then say he was only in jest, or pretend madness.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. Am not I in sport?] How many…
Verse 19. Am not I in sport?] How many hearts have been made sad, and how many reputations have been slain, by this kind of sport! "I designed no harm by what I said;" "It was only in jest," &c. Sportive as such persons may think their conduct to be, it is as ruinous as that of the madman who shoots arrows, throws firebrands, and projects in all directions instruments of death, so that some are wounded, some burnt, and some slain.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Jest. He will not escape, no more than the…
Jest. He will not escape, no more than the person who had committed murder involuntarily, if he were not in a city of refuge, Numbers xxxv. 22.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. in sport] Fatal mischief may come of thoughtlessness…
19. in sport] Fatal mischief may come of thoughtlessness apart from malice.
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