Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
New American Standard Bible
Will
King James Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Holman Bible
will come to rest
in the assembly of the departed spirits.
International Standard Version
Whoever wanders from the path of understanding will end up where the dead are gathered.
A Conservative Version
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
American Standard Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Amplified
A man who wanders from the way of understanding (godly wisdom)
Will remain in the assembly of the dead.
Darby Translation
The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom shall abide in the congregation of the dead.
Julia Smith Translation
A man wandering from the way of understanding shall rest in the convocation of the shades.
King James 2000
The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.
Modern King James verseion
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of departed spirits.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
NET Bible
The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.
New Heart English Bible
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
The Emphasized Bible
The man who wandereth from the way of discretion, in the gathered host of the shades, shall settle down.
Webster
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
World English Bible
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Youngs Literal Translation
A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.
Interlinear
Ta`ah
Sakal
Nuwach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
15 It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil. 16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades. 17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Cross References
Psalm 49:14
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Proverbs 2:18-19
For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Proverbs 7:26-27
For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Proverbs 13:20
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Zephaniah 1:6
And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
John 3:19-20
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
Ephesians 2:1
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Hebrews 6:4-6
As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:26-27
For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
2 Peter 2:21-22
For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
Jude 1:12
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,