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Myles Coverdale Bible

Proverbs 22:8

He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sin;   Vanity;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Sowing;   Sowing and Reaping;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Iniquity;   Vanity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Punishment of the Wicked, the;   Reaping;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mines;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Sin (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Reap;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Reap;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fail;   Reaping;   Sceptre;   Vanity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The one who sows injustice will reap disaster,and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Hebrew Names Version
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
English Standard Version
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
New American Standard Bible
One who sows injustice will reap disaster, And the rod of his fury will perish.
New Century Version
Those who plan evil will receive trouble. Their cruel anger will come to an end.
Amplified Bible
He who sows injustice will reap [a harvest of] trouble, And the rod of his wrath [with which he oppresses others] will fail.
World English Bible
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that soweth iniquitie, shall reape affliction, and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who sows unrighteousness will reap iniquity,And the rod of his fury will end.
Berean Standard Bible
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Contemporary English Version
Troublemakers get in trouble, and their terrible anger will get them nowhere.
Complete Jewish Bible
He who sows injustice reaps trouble, and the rod of his angry outburst will fail.
Darby Translation
He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who spread trouble will harvest trouble. In the end, they will be destroyed for the trouble they caused.
George Lamsa Translation
He who sows iniquity shall reap deceit; and the staff of his anger shall be broken.
Good News Translation
If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.
Lexham English Bible
He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.
Literal Translation
He who sows injustice will reap evil, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
American Standard Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Bible in Basic English
By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
King James Version (1611)
Hee that soweth iniquitie, shall reape vanitie: and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that soweth wickednes, shal reape wickednes: and the rodde of his anger shall fayle.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.
English Revised Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that sowith wickidnes, schal repe yuels; and the yerde of his yre schal be endid.
Update Bible Version
He that sows iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
New English Translation
The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
New King James Version
He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow, And the rod of his anger will fail.
New Living Translation
Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will come to an end.
New Life Bible
He who plants sin will gather trouble, and the heavy stick of his anger will break.
New Revised Standard
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
Revised Standard Version
He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
THE MESSAGE
Whoever sows sin reaps weeds, and bullying anger sputters into nothing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, And the rod of his fury will perish.

Contextual Overview

8 He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Job 4:8, Hosea 8:7, Hosea 10:13, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8

the rod of his anger shall fail: or, with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed, Proverbs 14:3, Psalms 125:3, Isaiah 9:4, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 30:31

Reciprocal: Judges 15:6 - and burnt Job 15:31 - for vanity Psalms 9:15 - General Proverbs 1:31 - General Proverbs 6:14 - soweth Proverbs 11:18 - but Proverbs 21:6 - getting Proverbs 30:8 - Remove 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous

Cross-References

Genesis 18:14
Shulde eny soch thinge be to harde for the LORDE? Aboute this tyme (yf I lyue) I wil come to the agayne, & Sara shal haue a sonne.
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham turned ageyne to the yonge men, and they gat vp, and wente together vnto Berseba, and dwelt there.
Genesis 22:20
After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor:
2 Chronicles 25:9
Amasias sayde vnto the man of God: What shal be done then with ye hundreth talentes yt I haue geue ye soudyers of Israel? The ma of God sayde: The LORDE hath yet more the this to geue the.
Matthew 19:26
Neuertheles Iesus behelde them, and sayde vnto them: With men it is vnpossyble, but with God all thinges are possyble.
John 1:29
The nexte daye after, Ihon sawe Iesus commynge vnto him, and sayde: Beholde the labe of God, which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde.
John 1:36
And wha he sawe Iesus walkynge, he sayde: Beholde the labe of God.
Revelation 5:6
And I behelde, & lo, in the myddes of the seate, and of ye foure beastes, and in the myddes of ye elders, stode a lambe as though he had bene kylled, which had seuen hornes and seue eyes, which are the seue spretes of God, sent in to all the worlde.
Revelation 5:12
sayenge with a loude voyce: Worthy is the lambe that was killed, to receaue power, and riches & wissdome, and strength, and honoure and glory, and blessynge.
Revelation 7:14
And I sayde vnto him: LORDE thou wotest. And he sayde vnto me: these are they which cam out of gret tribulacion, and made their garmentes large, and made the whyte in the bloude of the lambe:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that soweth iniquity u shall reap vanity,.... He that practises sin, and is frequent in the commission of it; indulges to it in a profuse way, as the sower plentifully scatters his seed; such shall reaper possess nothing but sin and wickedness; for, what a man sows, that shall he reap; he shall eat the fruit of his doings, and have the reward of his works; see Job 4:8; or "nothing" w, mere emptiness; it shall not answer; he shall have in the end neither pleasure nor profit, but the contrary; "shall reap evil things", as the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate Latin versions render it;

and the rod of his anger shall fail; with which he has ruled and smitten others in an angry and cruel manner; this shall be taken from him; his authority shall fail, and he shall become subject to others, and be used in like manner; see Isaiah 14:4. R. Joseph Kimchi interprets it of "the rod of the increase" of the earth, or the rod or flail with which the fruits of the earth are threshed or beaten out, which should fail before they were reaped; and Schultens x has reference to the same, and gives the sense, that a wicked man that sows iniquity, when he thinks his harvest is ripe, shall be beaten with the flail, by which he shall be consumed; and he that threshed others shall be threshed himself.

u So, "serere fallaciam", in Plauti Poenulo, l. 1. v. 67. w און "inanitatem ac nihilum", Michaelis. x "Et virga in eum desaevitura, erit decretoria".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rod of his anger - That with which he smites others (compare Isaiah 14:6). The King James Version describes the final impotence of the wrath of the wicked.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:8. He that soweth iniquity — The crop must be according to the seed. If a man sow thistle seed, is it likely he shall reap wheat? If he sow to the flesh, shall he not of the flesh reap destruction?


 
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