Proverbs 26:18
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As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death.

firebrands is flames or sparks

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
17As he that taketh a dog by the ears, so is he that passeth by in anger, and meddleth with another man's quarrel. 18As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death.19So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.…
Cross References
Judges 15:4
And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails:

Isaiah 50:11
Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk in the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled: this is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.

Lexicon
Like a madman
כְּֽ֭מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ (kə·miṯ·lah·lê·ah)
Preposition-k | Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3856: To be rabid, to languish

shooting
הַיֹּרֶ֥ה (hay·yō·reh)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach

firebrands
זִקִּ֗ים (ziq·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2131: What leaps forth, flash of fire, a burning arrow, a bond

and deadly
וָמָֽוֶת׃ (wā·mā·weṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

arrows,
חִצִּ֥ים (ḥiṣ·ṣîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear


Additional Translations
Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,

As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,

As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death,

Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,
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