Bible in Basic English
"So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?"
— Proverbs 26:19, Bible in Basic English
“So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?”
“So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith, Am not I in sport? ”
“is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"”
“So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.”
The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.
As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.