Proverbs 1:16

Contemporary English Version

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

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.

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

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

¹⁰ Don't be tempted by sinners or listen ¹¹ when they say, "Come on! Let's gang up and kill somebody, just for the fun of it! ¹² They're well and healthy now, but we'll finish them off once and for all. ¹³ We'll take their valuables and fill our homes with stolen goods. ¹⁴ If you join our gang, you'll get your share." ¹⁵ Don't follow anyone like that or do what they do. ¹⁶ They are in a big hurry to commit some crime, perhaps even murder. ¹⁷ They are like a bird that sees the bait, but ignores the trap. ¹⁸ They gang up to murder someone, but they are the victims. ¹⁹ The wealth you get from crime robs you of your life.

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
And that's what happened. God made the dome

Genesis 1:8
and named it "Sky." Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:9

The Third Day

God said, "I command the water under the sky to come together in one place, so there will be dry ground." And that's what happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.

Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
And when you see the sun or moon or stars, don't be tempted to bow down and worship them. The Lord put them there for all the other nations to worship.

Job 31:26
I have never openly or secretly

Job 38:7
while morning stars sang, and angels rejoiced?

Psalms 8:3
I often think of the heavens your hands have made, and of the moon and stars you put in place.

Psalms 19:6
It travels all the way across the sky. Nothing hides from its heat.

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.