2Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.


In Context

1 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.

2 Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

3 A whip for the horse, a halter for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.

Proverbs 26:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:2As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:2As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:2As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:2As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless lighteth not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:2Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:2As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.