Proverbs 17:19
ContextNET © | The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; 1 whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction. 2 |
NIV © | He who loves a quarrel loves sin; he who builds a high gate invites destruction. |
NASB © | He who loves transgression loves strife; He who raises his door seeks destruction. |
NLT © | Anyone who loves to quarrel loves sin; anyone who speaks boastfully invites disaster. |
MSG © | The person who courts sin, marries trouble; build a wall, invite a burglar. |
BBE © | The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction. |
NRSV © | One who loves transgression loves strife; one who builds a high threshold invites broken bones. |
NKJV © | He who loves transgression loves strife, And he who exalts his gate seeks destruction. |
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NET © | The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; 1 whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction. 2 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “the one who loves transgression the one who loves a quarrel.” There is some ambiguity in the first line. The meaning would not differ greatly if either were taken as the subject; but the parallelism suggests that the proverb is about a quarrelsome and arrogant person who loves sin and invites destruction. 2 tn Some have taken this second line literally and interpreted it to mean he has built a pretentious house. Probably it is meant to be figurative: The gate is the mouth (the figure would be hypocatastasis) and so to make it high is to say lofty things – he brags too much (e.g., 1 Sam 2:3; Prov 18:12; 29:23); cf. NCV, TEV, NLT. C. H. Toy (Proverbs [ICC], 348) wishes to emend פִּתְחוֹ (pitkho, “his gate”) to פִּיו (piv, “his mouth”), but that is unnecessary since the idea can be obtained by interpretation. |