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Proverbs 1:19
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So are the ways of all greedy for gain — it takes the lives of those who get it.
So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
This is what happens to those who are greedy. Whatever they get destroys them.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Such [are] the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.
Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
Such are the ways of all who practice iniquity, who take away the life of their owners.
These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
The wealth you get from crime robs you of your life.
Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!
Robbery always claims the life of the robber—this is what happens to anyone who lives by violence.
So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
All greedy people end up this way; greed kills selfish people.
Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.
Such are the ways of everyone who makes unjust gain; It takes away the life of its possessors.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.
Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.
Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain— it will take the life of its possessors.
So are the ways of everyone who gets unjust gain; it takes away its owner's soul.
These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It takes away the life of the owners thereof.
So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [who] taketh away the life of its owners.
So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.
Such are the ways of all who get things by hurting others. Their desire for stolen riches takes away their own lives.
Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.
Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.
So the pathis of ech auerouse man rauyschen the soulis of hem that welden.
So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
every: Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 23:3, Proverbs 23:4, 2 Samuel 18:11-13, 2 Kings 5:20-27, Jeremiah 22:17-19, Micah 2:1-3, Micah 3:10-12, Habakkuk 2:9, Acts 8:19, Acts 8:20, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, James 5:1-4, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:14-16
taketh: Job 31:39, Ecclesiastes 5:13
Reciprocal: Numbers 35:20 - by laying 2 Samuel 16:3 - day Psalms 10:5 - His Proverbs 1:13 - General Proverbs 21:7 - robbery Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 22:12 - greedily James 4:2 - lust
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So [are] the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain,.... That is set upon getting riches in an unlawful way, by robberies and murder; his ways will end in the loss of his own blood and life, and in the loss of his immortal soul; this will be what his wicked ways and course of life will bring him to, and what will his gain profit him then? it would be of no use and service to him could he have gained the whole world;
[which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof: or who, even every one of those that are greedy of gain, and will be rich at any rate; such stick not to take away the life of the proper owners of that gain, or money they are greedy of, in order to get it into their own possession; and such wicked practices cannot fail of meeting with a just recompence of reward: or "which" covetous gain, or gain gotten in such a wicked manner, will be the cause of the life of the injurious masters and wrong possessors of it being taken away from them, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by God himself. These sins of robbery and murder are particularly instanced in, not only because other sins lead unto them, as sabbath breaking, drunkenness, and lewdness, and issue in temporal and eternal ruin; but because they were very common among the Jews at the time that Wisdom, or Christ, was here on earth: to which time the whole passage refers, as appears from the following verses; and that those sins were frequent then is manifest both from Scripture; see Matthew 27:38; and from the confessions of the Jews, who say z that forty years before the destruction of the temple the sanhedrim were obliged to remove from place to place, because that murderers increased, and they could not judge and condemn them, for fear of being murdered themselves; and it was because of this great increase they were obliged to stop the beheading of the red heifer a.
z T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 8. 2. a Misnah Sotah, c. 9. s. 9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are destructive of true life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:19. Which taketh away the life — A covetous man is in effect, and in the sight of God, a murderer; he wishes to get all the gain that can accrue to any or all who are in the same business that he follows-no matter to him how many families starve in consequence. This is the very case with him who sets up shop after shop in different parts of the same town or neighbourhood, in which he carries on the same business, and endeavours to undersell others in the same trade, that he may get all into his own hand.
