3It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:3
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 3
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It is honorableכָּב֣וֹדH3519Noun - masculine singularfor a manלָ֭אִישׁH376Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singularto resolveשֶׁ֣בֶתH7674Adjective - feminine singulara disputeמֵרִ֑יבH7379Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singularbut anyוְכָל־H3605Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular constructfoolאֱ֝וִ֗ילH191Noun - masculine singularwill quarrelיִתְגַּלָּֽע׃H1566Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular