Parallel Verses

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.)

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.

American Standard 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.

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, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 13 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.) 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Cross References

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.

Luke 11:47-48

A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

Luke 16:27-28

And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

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