Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth 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 The just one will hate the word of falsehood: and the unjust one will be loathsome and be put to shame. 6 Justice will guard the blameless of way: and injustice shall overthrow the sinning. 7 There is he making himself rich, and not anything: making himself poor, and much wealth.



Cross References

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: and the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Proverbs 11:5-6

The justice of the blameless shall make straight his way, and in his injustice the unjust shall fall.

2 Chronicles 28:23

And he will sacrifice to the gods of Darmesek smiting upon him: and he will say, Because the gods of the kings of Aram they help them, to them will I sacrifice, and they will help me. And they were to him for stumbling, and to all Israel.

Psalm 15:2

He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart.

Psalm 25:21

Integrity and uprightness shall watch me; for I waited for thee.

Psalm 26:1

TO David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I went in mine integrity, and in Jehovah I trusted: I shall not waver.

Psalm 140:11

A man of tongue shall not be prepared in the earth: a man of violence, evil shall hunt him to melt down the coverings.

Proverbs 5:22

His iniquities shall take the unjust one, and with the cords of his sins shall he be held fast.

Proverbs 21:12

The just one being circumspect for the house of the unjust one: overthrowing the unjust for evil.

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