THEOSISProverbs 26:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.
כַּצִּפּ֣וֹר לָ֭נוּד כַּדְּר֣וֹר לָע֑וּף כֵּ֥ן קִֽלְלַ֥ת חִ֝נָּ֗ם לא ל֣וֹ תָבֹֽא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 23:8How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
- Neh 13:2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.
- Ps 109 (108):28
- 2 Sam 16:12Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may render me good for the cursing of this day.
- Deut 23:4Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.
- Deut 23:5And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
- 1 Sam 17:43And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
- Prov 27:8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.