OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 26:17

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Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

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Verse 17. Anger. Hebrew “passeth by, and meddleth with a quarrel not ot him” pertaining. Bible.—Such expose themselves foolishly to danger. Great discretion is requisite to reconcile those at variance.

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