Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The ungodly is like a tempest that passeth over, and is no more seen; but the righteous remaineth sure forever.

New American Standard Bible

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more,
But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.

King James Version

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Holman Bible

When the whirlwind passes,
the wicked are no more,
but the righteous are secure forever.

International Standard Version

When the storm ends, the wicked vanish, but the righteous person is forever firm.

A Conservative Version

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked man is no more, but the righteous man is an everlasting foundation.

American Standard Version

When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more; But the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Amplified


When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more,
But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.

Bible in Basic English

When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

Darby Translation

As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Julia Smith Translation

As the whirlwind passing away the unjust one is not: and the just one a foundation forever.

King James 2000

As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but [the] righteous have a foundation forever.

Modern King James verseion

As the storm passes, so the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

NET Bible

When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

New Heart English Bible

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

The Emphasized Bible

Like the passing away of a tempest, so the lawless one is not, but, the righteous, hath an age-abiding foundation.

Webster

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

World English Bible

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

Youngs Literal Translation

As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
As the whirlwind
סוּפה 
Cuwphah 
Usage: 16

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

so is the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

no more but the righteous
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

is an everlasting
עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

24 The thing that the ungodly are afraid of, shall come upon them; but the righteous shall have their desire. 25 The ungodly is like a tempest that passeth over, and is no more seen; but the righteous remaineth sure forever. 26 As vinegar is to the teeth, and as smoke is to the eyes; even so is a sluggish person to them that sendeth him forth.

Cross References

Psalm 15:5

He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

Psalm 58:9

As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.

Proverbs 12:3

A man cannot endure in ungodliness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Job 21:18

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

Job 27:19-21

When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

Psalm 37:9-10

For wicked doers shall be rooted out; but they that patiently abide the LORD, shall inherit the land.

Psalm 73:18-20

Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.

Proverbs 1:27

even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be overthrown; but the ungodly shall not remain in the land.

Proverbs 12:7

Or ever thou canst turn thee about, the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Isaiah 40:24

so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind.

Matthew 7:24-27

"Whosoever heareth of me these sayings, and doeth the same, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house on a rock:

Matthew 16:18

And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter. And upon this rock, I will build my congregation: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Ephesians 2:20

and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets - Jesus Christ being the head cornerstone -

1 Timothy 6:19

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may obtain eternal life.

2 Timothy 2:19

But the sure ground of God remaineth, and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.

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