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Proverbs 26:18

As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

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כְּֽ֭מִתְלַהְלֵהַּkemitlahlehaas faintלָהַהּpreposition, verb, hithpalpel, participle, absolute — “as faint”, a verb used as a describing wordH3856to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languishfaint, mad.הַיֹּרֶ֥הhayorehthe shootיָרָהdefinite article, verb, qal, participle, absolute — “the shoot”, a verb used as a describing wordH3384properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach([phrase]) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.זִקִּ֗יםziqimchainזִיקָהnoun, common, both genders, plural, absolute — “chain”, the ordinary formH2131properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bondchain, fetter, firebrand, spark.חִצִּ֥יםchitsimarrowחֵץnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “arrow”, the ordinary formH2671properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear[phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.וָמָֽוֶתvamavetand deadמָוֶתconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and dead”, the ordinary formH4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin(be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

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American Standard Version (1901)

As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,

Young’s Literal Translation

As [one] pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

World English Bible

Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

Darby Translation

As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

Douay-Rheims

As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death:

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ὥσπερ οἱ ἰώμενοι προβάλλουσι λόγους εἰς ἀνθρώπους, ὁ δὲ ἀπαντήσας τῷ λόγῳ πρῶτος ὑποσκελισθήσεται·