Proverbs Chapter 26 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 26:18

As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,
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BBE Proverbs 26:18

As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
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DARBY Proverbs 26:18

As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
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KJV Proverbs 26:18

As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
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WBT Proverbs 26:18


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WEB Proverbs 26:18

Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
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YLT Proverbs 26:18

As `one' pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 18, 19 - A tetrastich, but without parallelisms. As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death. The word rendered "madman" is an ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, and has been variously explained; but the Authorized Version is probably correct. "Firebrands" are darts with some blazing material attached to them. "Death "forms a climax with the other dangers mentioned, which the madman deals forth recklessly and indiscriminately. So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? When a man has injured his neighbour by lies or malice, the plea that he was only in joke is not allowed; the injury is not less real because he excuses it by alleging it was done not seriously, but playfully; no more than the fatal effects of the use of murderous weapons are lessened by their being employed by the hands of a maniac. Practical joking is often a most serious matter. A mediaeval adage says wisely - "Cum jocus est verus, jocus est malus atque severus," Septuagint, "Even as those who are under medical treatment (ἱώμενοι) throw words at men, and he who first meets the word will be overthrown; so are all they that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are seen, say, I did it in jest." As insane persons who abuse and ill treat their physicians are excused by reason of their infirmity, so those who injure friends in secret try to excuse themselves when found out by alleging that they were only joking.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Firebrands.--Arrows to which some blazing material was attached, in order that they might set on fire whatever they touched.