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King James Version

Proverbs 1:16

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Homicide;   Robbers;   Temptation;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Activity;   Evil;   Feet;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Greed/gluttony;   Profit;   Theft;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Birds;   Call of God, the;   Feet, the;   Murder;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Proverbs, Theology of;   Work;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shed;  

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.
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.
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

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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 God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Job 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Psalms 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalms 19:6
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

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.


 
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