2 Samuel 23:6
World English Bible (WEB)
But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
In context
4 shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
5 Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
6 But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.
2 Samuel 23:6 in every translation
- 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.
- 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:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by 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: