Proverbs 1:16

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

14Throw your lot in with us— we’ll all have one wallet.” 15My son, do not go along with them, keep your foot from their path— for their feet run to evil and they are swift to shed blood. 17Surely it is useless to spread a net in the eyes of all winged creatures! 18But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 1:16 word by word

כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם לָרַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ וִֽ֝ימַהֲר֗וּ לִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For their feetרֶ֫גֶלregel · footH7272
• runרוּץrûts · to run: runH7323
• to evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• and make hasteמָהַרmâhar · to hastenH4116
• to shedשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: killH8210
• bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818

Cross-references for Proverbs 1:16

• Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep until they do evil. They are robbed of sleep until they make someone fall.
• Proverbs 6:18a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run to evil,
• Isaiah 59:7Their feet run after evil. They rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Violence and ruin are on their highways.
• Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous to inflict wrath, 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

Topics related to Proverbs 1:16

• Homicide
• Robbers
• Temptation
• Young Men

In the dictionaries

• Call
• Consent
• Despise
• Entice
• Hate
• Lurk
• Naught
• Prosperity
• Proverb
• Refrain

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