Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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.

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 false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded. 6 Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering. 7 There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.

Proverbs 11:5-6

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

2 Chronicles 28:23

and he sacrificeth to the gods of Damascus -- those smiting him, and saith, 'Because the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, to them I sacrifice, and they help me,' and they have been to him to cause him to stumble, and to all Israel.

Psalm 15:2

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

Psalm 25:21

Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

Psalm 26:1

By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

Psalm 140:11

A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

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