New English Translation
Proverbs 1:16
16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten 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 with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.” 15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path; for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood. 17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird, 18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own 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 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
- Proverbs 6:18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,
- Isaiah 59:7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)
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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