Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; but the righteous is gracious and giveth:

New American Standard Bible

The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and gives.

King James Version

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

Holman Bible

The wicked man borrows and does not repay,
but the righteous one is gracious and giving.

International Standard Version

The wicked borrow but never pay back; but the righteous are generous and give.

A Conservative Version

The wicked man borrows, and pays not again, but the righteous man deals graciously, and gives.

American Standard Version

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; But the righteous dealeth graciously, and giveth.

Amplified


The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives.

Bible in Basic English

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Julia Smith Translation

The unjust one borrowed and he will not repay: and the just one compassionated, and gave.

King James 2000

The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] wicked borrows and does not repay, but [the] righteous [is] gracious and gives.

Modern King James verseion

The wicked borrows, and never pays again; but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The ungodly borroweth, and payeth not again, but the righteous is merciful and liberal.

NET Bible

Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

New Heart English Bible

The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous give generously.

The Emphasized Bible

A lawless man borroweth, and will not repay, But, a righteous man, showeth favour and giveth;

Webster

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.

World English Bible

The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Youngs Literal Translation

The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

References

Easton

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Instruction In Wisdom

20 For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away. 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; but the righteous is gracious and giveth: 22 for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

Cross References

Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

Deuteronomy 28:12

Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.

Psalm 112:9

He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.

Hebrews 13:16

But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Deuteronomy 15:9-11

Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.

Deuteronomy 28:43-44

The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.

2 Kings 4:1-5

And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Job 31:16-20

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Isaiah 32:8

But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things doth he stand.

Isaiah 58:7-10

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Luke 6:30

To every one that asks of thee, give; and from him that takes away what is thine, ask it not back.

Acts 11:29

And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister to them;

Acts 20:35

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

But this is true, he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in the spirit of blessing shall reap also in blessing:

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

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