Parallel Verses

NET Bible

A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible.

New American Standard Bible

A man of violence entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.

King James Version

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

Holman Bible

A violent man lures his neighbor,
leading him in a way that is not good.

International Standard Version

A violent man entices his companion and leads him on a path that is not good.

A Conservative Version

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

American Standard Version

A man of violence enticeth his neighbor, And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

Amplified


A violent and exceedingly covetous man entices his neighbor [to sin],
And leads him in a way that is not good.

Bible in Basic English

A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

Darby Translation

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into a way that is not good.

Julia Smith Translation

A man of violence will seduce his neighbor, and he caused him to go in a way not good.

King James 2000

A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good.

Modern King James verseion

A violent man lures his neighbor and makes him go in a way not good.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A wicked man beguileth his neighbour; and leadeth him the way that is not good.

New Heart English Bible

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

The Emphasized Bible

A ruthless man, enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him in a way, not good.

Webster

A violent man enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

World English Bible

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Youngs Literal Translation

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

פּתה 
Pathah 
Usage: 28

and leadeth
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

him into the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

Verse Info

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

28 A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. 29 A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible. 30 The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

Cross References

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David's wife Michal told him, "If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!"

1 Samuel 19:17

Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!" Michal replied to Saul, "He said to me, 'Help me get away or else I will kill you!'"

1 Samuel 22:7-9

Saul said to his servants who were stationed around him, "Listen up, you Benjaminites! Is Jesse's son giving fields and vineyards to all of you? Or is he making all of you commanders and officers?

1 Samuel 23:19-21

Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, "Isn't David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?

Nehemiah 6:13

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

Proverbs 1:10-14

My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

Proverbs 2:12-15

to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;

Proverbs 12:26

The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

2 Peter 3:17

Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.

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