Proverbs 1:16

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because their feet run toward eviland they hurry to shed blood.

Hebrew Names Version
For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

King James Version
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

English Standard Version
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

New Century Version
They are eager to do evil and are quick to kill.

New English Translation
for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

Amplified Bible
For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.

New American Standard Bible
For their feet run to evil, And they are quick to shed blood.

World English Bible
For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

Legacy Standard Bible
For their feet run to evilAnd they hasten to shed blood.

Contemporary English Version
They are in a big hurry to commit some crime, perhaps even murder.

Complete Jewish Bible
Their feet run to evil, they rush to shed blood.

Darby Translation
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Easy-to-Read Version
They run to do something evil, and they cannot wait to kill someone.

George Lamsa Translation
For their feet run to evil, they make haste to shed blood.

Good News Translation
They can't wait to do something bad. They're always ready to kill.

Lexham English Bible
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,

Literal Translation
for their feet run to evil and they haste to shed blood.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude.

American Standard Version
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

Bible in Basic English
For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

King James Version (1611)
For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood.

English Revised Version
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood.

Webster's Bible Translation
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

New King James Version
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

New Living Translation
They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder.

New Life Bible
For their feet run to sin and hurry to kill.

New Revised Standard
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, their feet, to mischief, do run, and haste to the shedding of blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Revised Standard Version
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Young's Literal Translation
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them. ¹¹If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, ¹²let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. ¹³We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder. ¹⁴Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse"- ¹⁵my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. ¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.¹⁷How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it. ¹⁸But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. ¹⁹Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 4:16, Proverbs 6:18, Isaiah 59:7, Romans 3:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then Genesis 37:20 - and let Genesis 49:6 - come Exodus 1:22 - Every son Numbers 22:21 - General Numbers 22:40 - General 1 Samuel 23:14 - Saul 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search 2 Samuel 17:1 - I will arise Esther 3:15 - hastened Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 59:4 - run Psalms 94:21 - gather Proverbs 1:11 - let us lay Proverbs 11:19 - he Proverbs 19:2 - and Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Matthew 14:8 - Give Mark 6:25 - with haste John 13:27 - That John 18:28 - early Acts 23:15 - that he Romans 3:15 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear." And it was so.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars-all the host of heaven-do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Job 31:26
if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalms 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place-

Psalms 19:6
It rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For their feet run to evil,.... To the evil of sin, to commit robberies and murder, and all manner of iniquity; they are eager upon it, and in haste and swift to do it, Proverbs 6:18 x; being carried away with their inordinate affections, which are as feet to the soul; and drawn aside with their lusts, and pushed on by Satan, and, encouraged by one another, and so rush on headlong to the evil of punishment also; and which is a reason why their ways and paths should be abstained from, because they bring upon them swift destruction; it is to their own hurt they run, as Jarchi interprets it; though the first sense seems best to agree with what follows;

and make haste to shed blood; the blood of innocent persons, in order to get their substance, to cover their iniquity and shame, and that no information may be given of them; this is mentioned as having something very horrible in it, in order to deter from joining with them.

x "Velox ad facinus", Claudian. in Rufin. l. 1. v. 240.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:16. For their feet run to evil — The whole of this verse is wanting in the Septuagint, and in the Arabic.