King James Version with Apocrypha
"But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:"
— 2 Samuel 23:6, King James Version with Apocrypha
“But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:”
“But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand; ”
“But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,”
“But evil people are like thorns– all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.”
“But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands.”
“But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:”
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: