3 It 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 honorable כָּב֣וֹד H3519 Noun - masculine singular for a man לָ֭אִישׁ H376 Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular to resolve שֶׁ֣בֶת H7674 Adjective - feminine singular a dispute מֵרִ֑יב H7379 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular but any וְכָל־ H3605 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct fool אֱ֝וִ֗יל H191 Noun - masculine singular will quarrel יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃ H1566 Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular