Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves,
and a good man, what his deeds deserve.

New American Standard Bible

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his.

King James Version

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

International Standard Version

The faithless one will pay for his behavior, but a good man will be rewarded for his.

A Conservative Version

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

American Standard Version

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man'shall be satisfied from himself.

Amplified


The backslider in heart will have his fill with his own [rotten] ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his ways [the godly thought and action which his heart pursues and in which he delights].

Bible in Basic English

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

Darby Translation

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.

Julia Smith Translation

He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.

King James 2000

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above himself.

Lexham Expanded Bible

From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and {from his own}, [so shall] a good man.

Modern King James verseion

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

An unfaithful person shall be filled with his own ways; but a good man will beware of such.

NET Bible

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

New Heart English Bible

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

The Emphasized Bible

With his own ways, shall be filled the backslider in heart, and, from himself, shall a good man be satisfied .

Webster

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

World English Bible

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Youngs Literal Translation

From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סוּג 
Cuwg 
Usage: 14

שׂבע שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 98

with his own ways
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

13 Even in laughter a heart may be sad,
and joy may end in grief.
14 The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves,
and a good man, what his deeds deserve.
15 The inexperienced one believes anything,
but the sensible one watches his steps.



Cross References

Proverbs 12:14

A man will be satisfied with good
by the words of his mouth,
and the work of a man’s hands will reward him.

Proverbs 1:31-32

they will eat the fruit of their way
and be glutted with their own schemes.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no outsider shares in its joy.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you;
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why have these people turned away?
Why is Jerusalem always turning away?
They take hold of deceit;
they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the Lord says:

The man who trusts in mankind,
who makes human flesh his strength
and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.

Ezekiel 22:31

So I have poured out My indignation on them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their actions down on their own heads.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

John 4:14

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

Galatians 6:4

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

Galatians 6:8

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Hebrews 3:12

Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

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