Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Evil people earn deceptive wages, but those who plant righteousness are truly rewarded.

New American Standard Bible

The wicked earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

King James Version

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Holman Bible

The wicked man earns an empty wage,
but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.

A Conservative Version

A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness [has] a sure reward.

American Standard Version

The wicked earneth deceitful wages; But he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

Amplified


The wicked man earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness and lives his life with integrity will have a true reward [that is both permanent and satisfying].

Bible in Basic English

The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

Darby Translation

The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

Julia Smith Translation

The unjust one did a work of falsehood: and the seed of justice the reward of truth.

King James 2000

The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The wicked earns {deceptive gain}, but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.

Modern King James verseion

The wicked makes a deceitful wage; but one sowing righteousness has a sure reward.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The labour of the ungodly prospereth not; but he that showeth righteousness, shall receive a sure reward.

NET Bible

The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

New Heart English Bible

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

The Emphasized Bible

The lawless man, earneth the wages of falsehood, but, he that soweth righteousness, hath the reward of fidelity.

Webster

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

World English Bible

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Youngs Literal Translation

The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

פּעלּה 
P@`ullah 
Usage: 14

but to him that soweth
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

17 A gracious man benefits himself, but the cruel person damages himself. 18 Evil people earn deceptive wages, but those who plant righteousness are truly rewarded. 19 Genuine righteousness leads to life, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Cross References

Hosea 10:12-13

Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.

Galatians 6:8-9

The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

James 3:18

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

Job 27:13-23

"This is what a wicked person inherits from God, and what the ruthless will receive from the Almighty:

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who weep while they plant will sing for joy while they harvest.

Proverbs 1:18

but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves.

Proverbs 5:22

The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the anger he uses for a weapon will be destroyed.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may suffer a snake bite.

Isaiah 59:5-8

They hatch adders' eggs and weave a spider's web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and any crushed egg hatches out futility.

Ephesians 4:22

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

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