Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The unjust one a ransom for the just one, and he transgressing, instead of the upright
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Holman Bible
and the treacherous, for
International Standard Version
The wicked are ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright.
A Conservative Version
A wicked man is a ransom for a righteous man, and the treacherous dealer for the upright.
American Standard Version
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous cometh in the stead of the upright.
Amplified
The wicked become a ransom for the righteous,
And the treacherous in the place of the upright [for they fall into their own traps].
Bible in Basic English
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
Darby Translation
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and a treacherous man in the stead of the upright.
King James 2000
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A ransom for the righteous is the wicked, and [the] faithless instead of the upright.
Modern King James verseion
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The ungodly shall be given for the righteous; and the wicked for the just.
NET Bible
The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.
New Heart English Bible
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.
The Emphasized Bible
A ransom for the righteous, is the lawless, and, instead of upright men, the traitor.
Webster
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
World English Bible
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.
Youngs Literal Translation
The wicked is an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.
Interlinear
Kopher
Bagad
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
17 A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich. 18 The unjust one a ransom for the just one, and he transgressing, instead of the upright 19 Good to dwell in the land of the desert rather than with a woman of contentions and anger.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:8
The just one was delivered from straits, and the unjust will come in his stead.
Isaiah 43:3-4
For I Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, saving thee: I gave Egypt expiating thee, Cush and Seba instead of thee.
Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 55:8-9
For not my purposes your purposes and not your ways my ways, says Jehovah
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit: