Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.
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.
Bible in Basic English
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
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.
Interlinear
Ta`ah
Sakal
Nuwach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
15 To do justice is joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity. 16 A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth. 17 Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.
Cross References
Psalm 49:14
As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.
Psalm 125:5
As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
Proverbs 2:18-19
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
Proverbs 7:26-27
For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.
Proverbs 9:18
And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!
Proverbs 13:20
Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.
Zephaniah 1:6
And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.
John 3:19-20
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
Ephesians 2:1
Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,
Hebrews 6:4-6
for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:26-27
For we -- wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,
Hebrews 10:38
and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'
2 Peter 2:21-22
for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,
1 John 2:19
out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.
Jude 1:12
These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;