Proverbs 20:3
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
In Context
4Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 14:17Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs 16:32Better [is] the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.
Proverbs 18:6The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
Proverbs 21:24Proud, haughty, scorner [is] his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.
Proverbs 26:17Laying hold on the ears of a dog, [Is] a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
Ephesians 4:32and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:3
2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. See here, 1. How formidable kings are, and what a terror they strike upon those they are angry with. Their fear, with which (especially when they are absolute and their will is a law) they keep their subjects in awe, is as the roaring of a lion, which is very dreadful to the creatures he preys upon, and makes them tremble so that they cannot escape from him. Those princes that rule by wisdom and love rule… Read the whole commentary →