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Proverbs 1:31

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Counsel;   Impenitence;   Obduracy (Hardness);   Opportunity;   Punishment;   Repentance;   Sin;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Despisement;   Evil;   Fear;   Hate;   Hearing;   Knowledge;   Safety;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions;   Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Anger of God, the;   Call of God, the;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Abimelech;   Adoni-Bezek;   Aholah;   Balaam;   Herod;   Jephthah;   Jeroboam;   Mines;   Sarah;   Sepharvaim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fruit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;   Wisdom of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandrian Philosophy;   Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
they will eat the fruit of their wayand be glutted with their own schemes.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.
King James Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
English Standard Version
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.
New Century Version
So you will get what you deserve; you will get what you planned for others.
New English Translation
Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
Amplified Bible
"Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own [wicked] way And be satiated with [the penalty of] their own devices.
New American Standard Bible
"So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.
World English Bible
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore shal they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they shall eat of the fruit of their wayAnd be satisfied with their own devices.
Berean Standard Bible
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Contemporary English Version
"Now you will eat the fruit of what you have done, until you are stuffed full with your own schemes.
Complete Jewish Bible
So they will bear the consequences of their own way and be overfilled with their own schemes.
Darby Translation
therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
Easy-to-Read Version
They filled their lives with what they wanted. They went their own way, so they will get what they deserve.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own ways and be filled with their own devices.
Good News Translation
So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.
Lexham English Bible
They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes,
Literal Translation
and they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own lusts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal they eate ye frutes of their owne waye, and be fylled wt their owne councels:
American Standard Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Bible in Basic English
So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be fylled with their owne inuentions.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.
English Revised Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thei schulen ete the fruytis of her weie; and thei schulen be fillid with her counseils.
Update Bible Version
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
New King James Version
Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies.
New Living Translation
Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.
New Life Bible
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own plans.
New Revised Standard
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
Revised Standard Version
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.
Young's Literal Translation
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices.

Contextual Overview

20Lady Wisdom goes out in the street and shouts. At the town center she makes her speech. In the middle of the traffic she takes her stand. At the busiest corner she calls out: 22"Simpletons! How long will you wallow in ignorance? Cynics! How long will you feed your cynicism? Idiots! How long will you refuse to learn? About face! I can revise your life. Look, I'm ready to pour out my spirit on you; I'm ready to tell you all I know. As it is, I've called, but you've turned a deaf ear; I've reached out to you, but you've ignored me. 25"Since you laugh at my counsel and make a joke of my advice, How can I take you seriously? I'll turn the tables and joke about your troubles! What if the roof falls in, and your whole life goes to pieces? What if catastrophe strikes and there's nothing to show for your life but rubble and ashes? You'll need me then. You'll call for me, but don't expect an answer. No matter how hard you look, you won't find me. 29"Because you hated Knowledge and had nothing to do with the Fear-of- God, Because you wouldn't take my advice and brushed aside all my offers to train you, Well, you've made your bed—now lie in it; you wanted your own way—now, how do you like it? Don't you see what happens, you simpletons, you idiots? Carelessness kills; complacency is murder. First pay attention to me, and then relax. Now you can take it easy—you're in good hands."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 14:14, Proverbs 22:8, Job 4:8, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 6:19, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:34 - he cried Exodus 32:20 - made the Numbers 5:22 - go into Numbers 14:25 - turn you 1 Kings 8:32 - condemning 2 Chronicles 6:23 - requiting Job 20:14 - his meat Job 34:11 - cause Psalms 94:23 - And he Psalms 107:11 - contemned Proverbs 5:22 - His Proverbs 8:36 - he Proverbs 10:21 - fools Proverbs 11:5 - direct Proverbs 12:2 - a man Proverbs 12:21 - filled Proverbs 13:2 - the soul Proverbs 13:13 - despiseth Isaiah 66:4 - will choose Jeremiah 4:18 - Thy way Jeremiah 14:16 - for Jeremiah 21:14 - according Hosea 10:13 - eaten Micah 7:13 - for Romans 6:21 - What Ephesians 5:11 - unfruitful 1 Timothy 6:10 - and pierced

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God had finished his work. On the seventh day he rested from all his work. God blessed the seventh day. He made it a Holy Day Because on that day he rested from his work, all the creating God had done. This is the story of how it all started, of Heaven and Earth when they were created.
Psalms 104:24
What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
Psalms 104:31
The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,.... Their evil ways; be punished according to their deserts, and receive the just reward of their iniquities; see Isaiah 3:10;

and be filled with their own devices; or "counsels" g: their device and counsel was to put Christ to death; to deliver him to the Roman governor, that he might be crucified, as he was: and they afterwards had their bellyful of crucifixion, as the word h used signifies; such vast numbers of them were crucified by the Romans before the walls of the city, five hundred a day, and sometimes more; insomuch that room was needed for crosses, and crosses for bodies i.

g ממועצתיהם "de consiliis suis", Pagninus, Montanus; "ex consiliis suis", Junius & Tremellius, &c. h ישבעו "saturabuntar", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. i Josephus de Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 11. s. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is no arbitrary sentence. The fault was all along their own. The fruit of their own ways is death.


 
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