Proverbs 26:18-19

[conuly]

Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”

...man, I'm gonna start quoting that everywhere from now on. Gosh knows there are a lot of people who need to stop with this.

The KJV translation is less snappy.

Comments

[silveradept]

Oh. Well, that's a remarkably useful arrangement, in this case, even if the NIV is not my reference work for good translation.

[conuly]

That's probably why you haven't come across that translation before, then. I'll go with whatever is snappiest, in this case.