Proverbs 1:19
Modern Translations
New International Version
Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

New Living Translation
Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.

English Standard Version
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Berean Study Bible
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

New American Standard Bible
Such are the ways of everyone who makes unjust gain; It takes away the life of its possessors.

NASB 1995
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.

NASB 1977
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.

Amplified Bible
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.

Christian Standard Bible
Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.

Contemporary English Version
The wealth you get from crime robs you of your life.

Good News Translation
Robbery always claims the life of the robber--this is what happens to anyone who lives by violence.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what happens to everyone who is greedy for unjust gain. Greed takes away his life.

International Standard Version
Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain— it takes away the lives of those who possess it.

NET Bible
Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

New King James Version
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

King James 2000 Bible
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

New Heart English Bible
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

World English Bible
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

American King James Version
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.

American Standard Version
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

A Faithful Version
So are the ways of everyone who gets gain by violence, who takes away the life of its owners.

Darby Bible Translation
So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

English Revised Version
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, "" It takes the life of its owners.

Young's Literal Translation
So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

Smith's Literal Translation
So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
So are the ways of all who do evil and take the lives of their Masters.

Lamsa Bible
Such are the ways of all who practice iniquity, who take away the life of their owners.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
















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