God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 1:16
16because they rush to do evil and hurry to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- New International Version (NIV)for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.
- English Standard Version (ESV)for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
Context of Proverbs 1:16
14Join us. We’ll split the loot equally.” 15My son, do not follow them in their way. Do not even set foot on their path, because they rush to do evil and hurry to shed blood. 17It does no good to spread a net within the sight of any bird. 18But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives.
Read all of Proverbs 1Proverbs 1:16 word by word
כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם לָרַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ וִֽ֝ימַהֲר֗וּ לִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 1:16
- Proverbs 4:16Wicked people cannot sleep unless they do wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they make someone stumble.
- Proverbs 6:18a mind devising wicked plans, feet that are quick to do wrong,
- Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their plans are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.
- Romans 3:5But if what we do wrong shows that God is fair, what should we say? Is God unfair when he vents his anger on us? (I’m arguing the way humans would.)
Commentaries on Proverbs 1:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16For their feet run to evil - The whole of this verse is wanting in the Septuagint, and in the Arabic.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-19Verses 10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth; but it is neither…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-19The father warns his child not to join a group of wrongdoers planning to attack innocent people. Their evil actions will eventually harm them (see Proverbs 28:10; Psalms 9:15; 35:8). The evil path involves violence and theft.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1910-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 1
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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