Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?
King James Version
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
Holman Bible
who knows what distress these two can bring?
International Standard Version
They will be destroyed suddenly, and who knows what kind of punishment will come from these two?
A Conservative Version
For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?
American Standard Version
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the destruction from them both, who knoweth it?
Amplified
For their tragedy will rise suddenly,
And who knows the punishment that both [the Lord and the king] will bring on the rebellious?
Bible in Basic English
For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?
Darby Translation
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
Julia Smith Translation
For suddenly shall their calamity rise, and who shall make known the misfortune of them two?
King James 2000
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of {both of them}, who knows?
Modern King James verseion
for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For their destruction shall come suddenly, and who knoweth the fall of them both?
NET Bible
for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?
New Heart English Bible
for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both?who knows?
The Emphasized Bible
For, suddenly, shall arise their calamity; and, the misfortune of their years, who knoweth?
Webster
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
World English Bible
for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both -- who knows?
Youngs Literal Translation
For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!
Themes
Adversity » Sometimes the result of sin and folly
Interlinear
Quwm
Yada`
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
21
My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not meddle with those that are given to change,
22
And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 16:31-35
And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground broke open under them;
1 Samuel 31:1-7
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 18:7-8
where the people of Israel were slain before the slaves of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
2 Chronicles 13:16-17
And the sons of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
Psalm 90:11
Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.
Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of the king is as a messenger of death, but the wise man will avoid it.
Proverbs 20:2
The fear of the king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he wanted to walk after commandments.
Hosea 13:10-11
Where is thy king, that may save thee with all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou didst say, Give me a king and princes?