Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.

New American Standard Bible

Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless,
But wickedness subverts the sinner.

King James Version

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Holman Bible

Righteousness guards people of integrity,
but wickedness undermines the sinner.

International Standard Version

Righteousness protects the blameless, but wickedness brings down the sinner.

A Conservative Version

Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

American Standard Version

Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Amplified


Righteousness (being in right standing with God) guards the one whose way is blameless,
But wickedness undermines and overthrows the sinner.

Bible in Basic English

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

Darby Translation

Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Julia Smith Translation

Justice will guard the blameless of way: and injustice shall overthrow the sinning.

King James 2000

Righteousness keeps him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin.

Modern King James verseion

Righteousness guards the perfect of way, but wickedness subverts a sin-offering.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Righteousness keepeth the innocent in the way; but ungodliness shall overthrow the sinner.

NET Bible

Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

New Heart English Bible

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Webster

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

World English Bible

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Youngs Literal Translation

Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
in the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

רשׁעה 
Rish`ah 
Usage: 15

סלף 
Calaph 
Usage: 7

Context Readings

A Wise Son Lives Righteously

5 A word of falsehood, the righteous man, hateth, but, the lawless, causeth shame and disgrace. 6 Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner. 7 There is who feigneth himself rich, yet hath nothing at all, who pleadeth poverty, yet hath great substance.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright, shall guide them, but, the crookedness of the treacherous, shall be their ruin.

Proverbs 11:5-6

The righteousness of the blameless, shall smooth his way, but, by his own lawlessness, shall the lawless one, fall.

2 Chronicles 28:23

For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus who had smitten him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, unto them, will I sacrifice, that they may help me. But, they, served to seduce him and all Israel.

Psalm 25:21

Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.

Psalm 26:1

Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.

Psalm 140:11

As for the slanderer, let him not be established in the earth, - As for the man of wrongful violence, let misfortune hunt him with thrust upon thrust.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One observeth the house of the lawless, - He is ready to cast down lawless men into misfortune.

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