American Standard Version
Proverbs 10:16
16The labor of the righteoustendethto life;The increase of the wicked, to sin.
Proverbs 10:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
- New International Version (NIV)The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.
Context of Proverbs 10:16
14Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction. 15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty. The labor of the righteoustendethto life; The increase of the wicked, to sin. 17He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth. 18He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
Read all of Proverbs 10Proverbs 10:16 word by word
פְּעֻלַּ֣ת צַדִּ֣יק לְחַיִּ֑ים תְּבוּאַ֖ת רָשָׁ֣ע לְחַטָּֽאת׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 10:16
- Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.
- Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- Matthew 7:17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
- Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
- Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
- Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 2 Timothy 2:17and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;
- 2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Commentaries on Proverbs 10:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The labor of the righteous - The good man labors that he may be able to support life; this is his first object: and then to have something to divide with the poor; this is his next object. The fruit of the wicked to sin - This man lives to eat and drink, and his property he spends in riot and excess. God's blessings are cursed to him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16A warning against the conclusion to seek wealth first of all, which men of lower natures might draw from Proverbs 10:15. “Quaerenda pecunia primum est; Virtus post nummos?” Horace, Ep. 1. i. 53. Such an inference is met by the experience, that while wealth gotten by honest industry is not only, like inherited riches a defense, but also a blessing, the seeming profit (rather than “fruit”) of the wicked tends to further sin 1 Timothy 6:10, and so to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16Verse 16 Perhaps a righteous man has no more than what he works hard for, but that labour tends to life.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. The industry of the righteous is alone truly successful, while the earnings of the wicked tempt and lead to sin.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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