Proverbs 26:18
You're like a crazy person firing off blazing arrows and killing people
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
In Context
17Interfering in someone else's quarrel is like grabbing a stray dog by the ears.
19if you lie to your friend and then say, “I was only joking!”
Cross References
Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird flying into a trap, he's unaware he will pay with his life.
Isaiah 50:11Beware all you who start a fire, who pick up blazing torches! Go ahead, walk in the light of your own fire and of the torches you yourselves have set alight! This is what you will receive from me: You are going to lie down in a place of suffering.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:18
Hatred and Strife. 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. 1. That which is here condemned is meddling with strife that belongs not to us. If we must not be hasty to strive in our own cause ( ch. xxv. 8 ), much less in other people's, especially theirs that we are no way related to or concerned in, but light on accidentally as we pass by. If we can be instrumental to make peace between those that are at variance we must do it, though we… Read the whole commentary →