Proverbs 25:8

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

In Context

7For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

9Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

2 Kings 14:8Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.

Proverbs 17:14The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Proverbs 30:33The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Luke 14:31Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:7-8

6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: 7 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen. Here we see, 1. That religion is so far from destroying good manners that it reaches us to behave ourselves lowly and reverently towards our superiors, to keep our distance, and give place to those to whom it belongs " Put not forth thyself rudely and carelessly in… Read the whole commentary →

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