Proverbs 26:2
Like [SIM] birds that fly by and do not alight/land on anything, if someone curses you, it cannot hurt you if you ◄do not deserve them/have not done to him what is wrong►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:4One reason is that their leaders refused to give your ancestors food and water when they were traveling from Egypt to Canaan. Another reason is that they wanted to pay Balaam, the son of Beor from Pethor town in Mesopotamia, to curse you Israelis.
1 Samuel 17:43He said to David, “Are you coming to me with a stick because you think that I am a dog?” Then he called out to his gods to harm David.
2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps Yahweh will see that I am having all this trouble, and some day he will repay me by ◄blessing/doing good things for► me in return for this man cursing me today.”
Psalms 109:28They may curse me, but I ask that you bless me. Cause those who ◄persecute/cause problems for► me to be defeated and as a result to be disgraced/ashamed, and cause me to be glad/happy!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:2
Proper Treatment of Fools. 1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. Note, 1. It is too common a thing for honour to be given to fools, who are utterly unworthy of it and unfit for it. Bad men, who have neither wit nor grace, are sometimes preferred by princes, and applauded and cried up by the people. Folly is set in great dignity, as Solomon observed, Eccl. x. 6 . 2. It is very absurd and unbecoming when it is so. It is an incongruous as snow in summer, and as great a… Read the whole commentary →