Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah

New American Standard Bible

This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who approve their words. Selah.

King James Version

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Holman Bible

This is the way of those who are arrogant,
and of their followers,
who approve of their words.Selah

International Standard Version

This is the fate of those who are foolish and of those who correct their words after they speak. Interlude

A Conservative Version

This their way is their folly. Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah.

Amplified


This is the fate of those who are foolishly confident,
And of those after them who approve [and are influenced by] their words. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

Darby Translation

This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

This their way folly to them: and those after them will delight in their mouth. Silence.

King James 2000

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

This [is] the journey [of those who] have foolish [confidence], and those after them [who] accept their sayings. Selah

Modern King James verseion

This way of theirs is their foolishness; yet their followers delight in their sayings. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

This way of theirs is very foolishness, and yet their posterity praise it with their mouth. Selah.

NET Bible

This is the destiny of fools, and of those who approve of their philosophy. (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

This, their way, is a folly to them, And yet, their followers, with their mouth, approve. Selah.

Webster

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

World English Bible

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

12 But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.


Cross References

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

Luke 11:47-48

Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Luke 16:27-28

And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

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