Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
A man laden with the blood of any person, fleeth 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.
A Conservative Version
A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay 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.
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 prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor: he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. 17 A man laden with the blood of any person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him. 18 Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in his double ways, shall fall in one of them.
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Cross References
Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour, and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Numbers 35:14-34
Three cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
1 Kings 21:19
And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
1 Kings 21:23
And of Jezebel also spoke Jehovah saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the moat of Jizreel.
2 Kings 9:26
Certainly I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith Jehovah; and I will requite thee in this plot, saith Jehovah. And now, take and cast him into the plot, according to the word of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 24:21-25
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
Matthew 27:4-5
saying, I have sinned in having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, This man is certainly a murderer, whom, though saved out of the sea, Nemesis has not allowed to live.