Proverbs 26 · Verse 9

Proverbs 26:9

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:9, King James Version

Proverbs 26:9 in other translations

BSB	Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
WEB	Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
ASV	As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
YLT	A thorn hath gone up into the hand of a drunkard, And a parable in the mouth of fools.
DARBY	As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
BBE	Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
Webster	As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. As vexatious and unmanageable as a thorn in a drunkard's hand is a parable to a fool. He will be as apt to misuse is as to use it rightly.

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

Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honour. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.

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.

ח֭וֹחַCho.achthorn[s]H2336

עָלָ֣ה'a.Lahit goes upH5927

בְיַד\־ve.yad-in [the] hand ofH3027

שִׁכּ֑וֹרshi.Kora drunkardH7910

וּ֝מָשָׁ֗לu.ma.Shaland a proverbH4912

בְּפִ֣יbe.Fiin [the] mouth ofH6310

כְסִילִֽים\׃khe.si.LimfoolsH3684

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

Proverbs 23:35
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Proverbs 26:8
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
Proverbs 26:9
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs 26:10
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Espinas hincadas en mano del embriagado, tal es el proverbio en la boca de los necios.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Une épine qui entre dans la main d’un homme ivre, tel est un proverbe dans la bouche des sots.
German Elberfelder 1871	Ein Dorn, der in die Hand eines Trunkenen gerät: so ein Spruch im Munde der Toren.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Quomodo si spina nascatur in manu temulenti, sic parabola in ore stultorum.