King James Version
Proverbs 25:8 in the King James Version says “Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to sh...” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 25 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.”
Proverbs 25:8 · KJV
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: Put: Heb. Set not out thy glory
For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: a secret: or, the secret of
Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“Go not forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“to strive”
H7378properly, to toss, i.e., grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e., hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“lest thou know not what to do”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
“hath put thee to shame”
H3637properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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