Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

His iniquities shall take the unjust one, and with the cords of his sins shall he be held fast.

New American Standard Bible

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

King James Version

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Holman Bible

A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.

International Standard Version

The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.

A Conservative Version

His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

American Standard Version

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Amplified


The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

Bible in Basic English

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

Darby Translation

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

King James 2000

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

Lexham Expanded Bible

His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.

Modern King James verseion

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.

NET Bible

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

New Heart English Bible

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

The Emphasized Bible

His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

Webster

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

World English Bible

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Youngs Literal Translation

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עוון עון 
`avon 
Usage: 230

לכד 
Lakad 
Usage: 121

the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

himself, and he shall be holden
תּמך 
Tamak 
Usage: 21

with the cords
חבל חבל 
Chebel 
Usage: 62

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom

21 For before the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of man, and he makes level all his tracks. 22 His iniquities shall take the unjust one, and with the cords of his sins shall he be held fast. 23 He shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude of his folly.

Cross References

Psalm 7:15-16

He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make.

Psalm 9:15

The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it

Numbers 32:23

And if ye shall not do this, behold, ye sinned to Jehovah: and know ye, your sin which shall find you.

Proverbs 1:18

And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls.

Proverbs 1:31-32

And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: and the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Proverbs 11:5

The justice of the blameless shall make straight his way, and in his injustice the unjust shall fall.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.

Jeremiah 2:19

Thy wickedness shall correct thee, and thy turnings back shall convict thee: and know thou and see that evil and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, and that my fear was not to thee, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.

Hosea 4:11-14

Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.

1 Corinthians 5:9-10

I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators.

Galatians 5:19-21

And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

Galatians 6:7-8

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.

Ephesians 5:5-6

For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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