Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

Holman Bible

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

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.

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 the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness. 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways. 15 A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.



Cross References

Proverbs 12:14

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him.

Proverbs 1:31-32

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

Jeremiah 2:19

"Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Ezekiel 22:31

Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

John 4:14

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Galatians 6:4

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

Galatians 6:8

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Hebrews 3:12

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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