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Sunday, July 20th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Literal Standard Version

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, || And they hurry 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.
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.
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 be willing. 11If they say, "Come with us, we lay wait for blood, || We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, 12We swallow them as Sheol—alive, || And whole—as those going down [to] the pit, 13We find every precious substance, || We fill our houses [with] spoil, 14You cast your lot among us, || One purse is—to all of us." 15My son! Do not go in the way with them, || Withhold your foot from their path, 16For their feet run to evil, || And they hurry to shed blood.17Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. 18And they lay wait for their own blood, || They watch secretly for their own lives. 19So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, || It takes the life of its owners.

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 makes the expanse, and it separates between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
Genesis 1:8
And God calls the expanse "Heavens"; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God says, "Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land be seen": and it is so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brings forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God sees that [it is] good;
Genesis 1:14
And God says, "Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years,
Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and have seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to them and served them, which your God YHWH has apportioned to all the peoples under all the heavens.
Job 31:26
If I see the light when it shines, || And the precious moon walking,
Job 38:7
In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?
Psalms 8:3
For I see Your heavens, a work of Your fingers, || [The] moon and stars that You established.
Psalms 19:6
From the end of the heavens [is] his going out, || And his revolution [is] to their ends, || And nothing is hid from his 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.


 
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