Proverbs 20:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.”
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“A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing-wheel over them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 20:26 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 4:9But 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,
- 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 returned to Jerusalem.
- Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- Psalms 101:8Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
- Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
- Isaiah 28:27Surely 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.
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