Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

New American Standard Bible

So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors.

King James Version

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Holman Bible

Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly;
it takes the lives of those who receive it.

International Standard Version

Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain it takes away the lives of those who possess it.

American Standard Version

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Amplified


So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.

Bible in Basic English

Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

Darby Translation

So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

Julia Smith Translation

So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.

King James 2000

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.

Modern King James verseion

So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

NET Bible

Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

New Heart English Bible

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

The Emphasized Bible

Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!

Webster

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

World English Bible

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Youngs Literal Translation

So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So are the ways
ארח 
'orach 
Usage: 59

בּצע 
Batsa` 
Usage: 17

of gain
בּצע 
Betsa` 
Usage: 22

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

the life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

of the owners
בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

Verse Info

Context Readings

Advice To The Young

18 and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it. 20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.



Cross References

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

And Joab said to the man who told him, and, behold, thou saw it, and why did thou not smite him there to the ground? And I would have given thee ten [pieces of] silver, and a belt.

2 Kings 5:20-27

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.

Job 31:39

if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:10-12

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Acts 8:19-20

saying, Give me also this power, so that on whomever I lay hands, he may receive Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:3

no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

James 5:1-4

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

2 Peter 2:3

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

2 Peter 2:14-16

having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

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