Proverbs 20:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

Young's Literal Translation
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

King James Bible
[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Hebrew
It is honorable
כָּב֣וֹד (kā·ḇō·wḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness

for a man
לָ֭אִישׁ (lā·’îš)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

to resolve
שֶׁ֣בֶת (še·ḇeṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7674: Rest, interruption, cessation

a dispute,
מֵרִ֑יב (mê·rîḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7379: Strife, dispute

but any
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

fool
אֱ֝וִ֗יל (’ĕ·wîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 191: Foolish

will quarrel.
יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃ (yiṯ·gal·lā‘)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1566: To expose, lay bare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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