19Such is the end of all who go after ill- gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.


In Context

16 for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.

17 How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!

18 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!

19 Such is the end of all who go after ill- gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.

20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;

21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:

Proverbs 1:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:19So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:19So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.