Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and drives the threshing wheel
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
International Standard Version
A wise king sifts the wicked, crushing them with the threshing wheel.
A Conservative Version
A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
American Standard Version
A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing -wheel over them.
Amplified
A wise king sifts out the wicked [from among the good]
And drives the [threshing] wheel over them [to separate the chaff from the grain].
Bible in Basic English
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
Darby Translation
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Julia Smith Translation
A wise king scatters the unjust, and he will turn back a wheel over them.
King James 2000
A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A wise king winnows the wicked, and he will drive a wheel over them.
Modern King James verseion
A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A wise king destroyeth the ungodly, and bringeth the wheel over them.
NET Bible
A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.
New Heart English Bible
A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
The Emphasized Bible
A wise king, winnoweth out the lawless, when he hath turned over them the wheel.
Webster
A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
World English Bible
A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Youngs Literal Translation
A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.
Interlinear
Zarah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 20:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolproof Instructions
25
and later to reconsider his vows.
and drives the threshing wheel
searching the innermost parts.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:8
sifts out all evil with his eyes.
2 Samuel 4:9-12
But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, the One who has redeemed my life from every distress,
2 Samuel 12:31
He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking.
Psalm 101:5-8
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.
Isaiah 28:27-28
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.