2 Samuel 23:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
In context
4 is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
5 Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
6 But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
8 These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.
2 Samuel 23:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
- KJV King James Version
- But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
- WEB World English Bible
- But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- As to the worthless — As a thorn driven away [are] all of them, For — not by hand are they taken;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But [the sons] of Belial [are] all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;
- WBS Webster Bible
- But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: