Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
You cast them down to
King James Version
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Holman Bible
You make them fall into ruin.
International Standard Version
You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.
A Conservative Version
Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.
American Standard Version
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
Amplified
Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Bible in Basic English
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Darby Translation
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
Julia Smith Translation
Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins.
King James 2000
Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
Modern King James verseion
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.
NET Bible
Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
New Heart English Bible
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them, - Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger.
Webster
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.
World English Bible
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Themes
Envy » Prosperity of the wicked should not excite
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness » Of the wicked » Saints often permitted to see the end of
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Saints often permitted to see the end of
Insecurity of the wicked » General references to
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Put in slippery places
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 73:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Ways Vindicated
17
I understood their end when I went into the sanctuary of God.
18
You cast them down to
Cross References
Psalm 35:6
Let their path be dark and slippery as the angel of Jehovah pursues them.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance and retribution belong to me. (Vengeance is mine, I will repay.) Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things to come on them come quickly.
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked will perish! The enemies of Jehovah will be like the glory of the pastures. They vanish, like smoke they vanish away.
Psalm 37:24
When he falls, he will not be thrown down headfirst because Jehovah holds on to his hand.
Psalm 37:35-38
I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.
Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the corruption of the grave. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
Psalm 92:7
Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.
Psalm 94:23
He has turned their wickedness against them. He will destroy them because of their sins. Jehovah our God will destroy them.
Jeremiah 23:12
That is why their own way will become like a slippery path in the dark. They will be chased away, and they will fall down in the dark. I will bring disaster on them. It is time for them to be punished, proclaims Jehovah.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the Lord and from the glory of his might.