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Proverbs 25:8 Interlinear

“ Go not forth to strive hastily lest thou know not what to do in the end hath put thee to shame thereof when thy neighbour”

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Proverbs 25 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	אַל	H408		not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
2	תֵּצֵ֥א	H3318	Go not forth	to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
3	לָרִ֗ב	H7378	to strive	properly, to toss, i.e., grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e., hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
4	מַ֫הֵ֥ר	H4118	hastily	properly, hurrying; hence (adverbially) in a hurry
5	פֶּ֣ן	H6435		properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest
6	מַה	H4100		properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
7	תַּ֭עֲשֶׂה	H6213	lest thou know not what to do	to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
8	בְּאַחֲרִיתָ֑הּ	H319	in the end	the last or end, hence, the future; also posterity
9	בְּהַכְלִ֖ים	H3637	hath put thee to shame	properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult
10	אֹתְךָ֣	H853		properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
11	רֵעֶֽךָ׃	H7453	thereof when thy neighbour	an associate (more or less close)

Proverbs 25:8 (current) Go not forth to strive hastily lest thou know not what to do in the end hath put thee to shame thereof when thy neighbour