Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, and with disgrace, reproach.
New American Standard Bible
And with dishonor comes scorn.
King James Version
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Holman Bible
and along with dishonor, disgrace.
International Standard Version
When an evil person comes, contempt also comes, along with dishonor and disgrace.
American Standard Version
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, And with ignominy cometh reproach.
Amplified
When the wicked man comes [to the depth of evil], contempt [of all that is pure and good] also comes,
And with inner baseness (dishonor) comes outer shame (scorn).
Bible in Basic English
When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.
Darby Translation
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Julia Smith Translation
In the coming of the unjust also came contempt, and with dishonor, reproach.
King James 2000
When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with dishonor comes reproach.
Lexham Expanded Bible
With the coming of wickedness comes contempt also, and with dishonor, disgrace.
Modern King James verseion
When the wicked comes, scorn also comes, and with shame comes reproach.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Where ungodliness is, there is also disdain; and so there followeth shame and dishonour.
NET Bible
When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.
New Heart English Bible
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.
The Emphasized Bible
When the lawless man cometh in, then cometh also contempt, and, with shame, reproach.
Webster
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
World English Bible
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.
Youngs Literal Translation
With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame -- reproach.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 18:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
How Fools Live
2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself. 3 When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, and with disgrace, reproach. 4 The words of a man's mouth are deep waters. The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:30
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
Nehemiah 4:4
Hear, O our God, for we are despised, and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity,
Psalm 69:9
For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.
Proverbs 29:16
When the wicked are increased, transgression increases, but the righteous shall look upon their fall.
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,
1 Peter 4:4
During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.
1 Peter 4:14
Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.