Proverbs 14:12
Good News Translation
What you think is the right road may lead to death.

New Revised Standard Version
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.

Contemporary English Version
You may think you are on the right road and still end up dead.

New American Bible
Sometimes a way seems right, but the end of it leads to death!

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 30:12 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Matthew 7:13,14 Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. . . .

Luke 13:24 Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able.

Psalm 112:2,3 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. . . .

Psalm 128:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Isaiah 58:11,12 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail. . . .

Context
The Wise Woman
11The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish. 12There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.13Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning taketh hold of the ends of joy.…
Cross References
Romans 6:21
What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 14:11
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