Proverbs 20 · Verse 26

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Proverbs 20:26, King James Version

Proverbs 20:26 in other translations

BSBA wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
WEBA wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
ASVA wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing -wheel over them.
YLTA wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.
DARBYA wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
BBEA wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
WebsterA wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

What does Proverbs 20:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. (Compare Pr 20:8). bringeth ... over them--The wheel was used for threshing grain. The figure denotes severity (compare Am 1:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 Bringeth the wheel over them - He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing-floor. Every one knows that grain was separated from its husks, in Palestine, by the feet of the oxen trampling among the sheaves, or bringing a rough-shod wheel over them. Asiatic kings often threshed their people, to bring out their property; but this is not what is intended here.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
Justice should crush the wicked, and separate them from the virtuous.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 20:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מְזָרֶ֣הme.za.Reh[is] winnowingH2219
רְ֭שָׁעִיםRe.sha.'imwicked [people]H7563
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekha kingH4428
חָכָ֑םcha.KhamwiseH2450
וַיָּ֖שֶׁבvai.Ya.shevand he brought backH7725
עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם'a.lei.Hemover themH5921
אוֹפָֽן\׃'o.Fana wheelH212

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 20:26

  • Proverbs 20:8

    A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

  • 2 Samuel 12:31

    And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

  • Psalms 101:5-8

    Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

  • 2 Samuel 4:9-12

    And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

  • Isaiah 28:27-28

    For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
wise.
8; 2Sa 4:9-12; Ps 101:5-8
bringeth.
2Sa 12:31; Isa 28:27,28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 20:25

    It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

  • Proverbs 20:26

    A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

  • Proverbs 20:27

    The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

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Proverbs 20:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El rey sabio esparce los impíos, y sobre ellos hace tornar la rueda.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Un roi sage disperse les méchants, et ramène sur eux la roue.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ein weiser König zerstreut die Gesetzlosen und führt das Dreschrad über sie hin.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dissipat impios rex sapiens, et incurvat super eos fornicem.