Proverbs 20:26

Modern

A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.

Traditional

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

Literal

Wise is a king scattering the wicked—he even turns the wheel over them.

Latin

Dissipat impios rex sapiens, et incurvat super eos fornicem.

Hebrew

English

A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.

A king represents God on earth, so he should help good people and punish wrongdoers.

Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
2 Samuel 12:31
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 4:9–12
But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
Psalm 101:5–8
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Isaiah 28:27–28
Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.