How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Parallel translations
- KJV How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
- BSB How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
- NKJV How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.
- NASB ¶How long will you attack a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
- NLT So many enemies against one man— all of them trying to kill me. To them I’m just a broken-down wall or a tottering fence.
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- Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Ps 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
- Ps 140:2those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
- Isa 30:13–14therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
- Ps 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
- Exod 16:28Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
- Ps 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
- Prov 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
- Hos 7:15Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
- Ps 4:2You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
- 1 Sam 26:10David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- Ps 73:18–20Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
- Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Prov 6:9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
- Matt 17:17Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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