Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

New American Standard Bible

“Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing;
And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

King James Version

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Holman Bible

Be careful that no one lures you with riches;
do not let a large ransom lead you astray.

International Standard Version

So that no one entices you with riches, don't let a large ransom turn you astray.

A Conservative Version

and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

American Standard Version

For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

Amplified


“Do not let wrath entice you into scoffing;
And do not let the greatness and the extent of the ransom turn you aside.

Darby Translation

Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Because of wrath, lest he shall remove thee with smiting, and a multitude of covering shall not turn thee away.

King James 2000

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.

Modern King James verseion

For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For then shall not thy cause be stilled with cruelty, nor pacified with many gifts.

NET Bible

Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

New Heart English Bible

Do not let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

The Emphasized Bible

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.

Webster

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סוּת 
Cuwth 
Usage: 18

with his stroke
שׂפק ספק 
Cepheq 
Usage: 2

כּפר 
Kopher 
Usage: 17

References

Morish

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you. 18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. 19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Cross References

Job 33:24

then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

Romans 1:18

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Psalm 2:5

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

Psalm 2:12

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

Psalm 39:10

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalm 49:7-8

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Psalm 110:5

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Isaiah 14:6

who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Ezekiel 24:16

Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Romans 2:5

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation -- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

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