Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.
New American Standard Bible
Will
King James Version
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Holman Bible
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.
International Standard Version
A guilty man tormented by bloodshed will be a lifelong fugitive; let no one support him.
American Standard Version
A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.
Amplified
A man who is burdened with the guilt of human blood (murder)
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him or give him refuge.
Bible in Basic English
One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
Darby Translation
A man laden with the blood of any person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.
Julia Smith Translation
He terrifying violence upon the blood of a soul shall flee even to the pit; none shall hold fast upon him.
King James 2000
A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to a pit; let no man help him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A person who is burdened with [the] blood of {another}, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.
Modern King James verseion
A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that by violence sheddeth any man's blood, shall be a renagade unto his grave; and no man shall be able to succor him.
NET Bible
The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
New Heart English Bible
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
The Emphasized Bible
A man oppressed with a person's blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.
Webster
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
World English Bible
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
Youngs Literal Translation
A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 28:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
16 The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, [but] he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days. 17 A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him. 18 He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
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Cross References
Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.
Exodus 21:14
And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Numbers 35:14-34
Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities ye shall give in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
1 Kings 21:19
And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, eve
1 Kings 21:23
And LORD spoke also of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
2 Kings 9:26
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says LORD, and I will requite thee in this plot, says LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plot [of ground], according to the word of LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:21-25
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of LORD.
Matthew 27:4-5
saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.
Acts 28:4
And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live.