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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Proverbs 2:19

None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Chastity;   Company;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Straying;   Understanding;   Whoredom;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Houses;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Path;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Path;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Life;   Path;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didache;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
None return who go to her;none reach the paths of life.
Hebrew Names Version
None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:
King James Version
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
English Standard Version
none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
New Century Version
No one who goes to her comes back or walks the path of life again.
New English Translation
None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
Amplified Bible
None who go to her return again, Nor do they regain the paths of life—
New American Standard Bible
None who go to her return, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
World English Bible
None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:
Geneva Bible (1587)
All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.
Legacy Standard Bible
All who go to her will not return,And they will not reach the paths of life.
Berean Standard Bible
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Contemporary English Version
Visit her, and you will never find the road to life again.
Complete Jewish Bible
None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.
Darby Translation
none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
Easy-to-Read Version
All who enter lose their life and never return.
George Lamsa Translation
None who go to her return again, neither do they remember the path of life.
Good News Translation
No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.
Lexham English Bible
Of all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life.
Literal Translation
All going in to her do not return, nor do they reach the ways of life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, nether take they holde of the waye of life.
American Standard Version
None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
Bible in Basic English
Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life;
King James Version (1611)
None that goe vnto her, returne againe, neither take they hold of the pathes of life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, neither take they holde of the way of lyfe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.
English Revised Version
None that go unto her return again, neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle that entren to hir, schulen not turne ayen, nether schulen catche the pathis of lijf.
Update Bible Version
None that go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:
Webster's Bible Translation
None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.
New King James Version
None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life--
New Living Translation
The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.
New Life Bible
None who go to her return again, and they do not find the paths of life.
New Revised Standard
those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:
Douay-Rheims Bible
None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.
Revised Standard Version
none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.
Young's Literal Translation
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Contextual Overview

10 For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; 11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, 12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things; 13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil; 15 Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways; 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; 17 That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God; 18 For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead; 19 None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

None: Psalms 81:12, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Jeremiah 13:23, Hosea 4:14, Matthew 19:24-26

take: Proverbs 4:18, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: Judges 16:21 - and put out Psalms 16:11 - path Proverbs 5:5 - General Proverbs 6:32 - destroyeth Proverbs 7:27 - General Proverbs 9:18 - the dead Proverbs 21:16 - remain Acts 2:28 - made

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
Genesis 2:8
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Genesis 2:22
The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Genesis 2:23
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
Genesis 6:20
"Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 9:2
"The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

None that go unto her return again,.... That is, those that commit whoredom with her return not again by repentance, and to a sober and chaste way of living, at least but very few; hence some of the ancients thought adultery was the unpardonable sin; but it is certain that some have been recovered by the power of divine grace, and have been brought to repentance for their impure manner of life, and have truly believed in Christ, and lived sober and godly lives afterwards; but, as the Targum adds, they do not return "in peace", but with great distress of mind, remorse of conscience, and bitterness of soul; and these instances are rare; generally speaking, such as are ensnared by an adulterous woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are as bands, are held so fast by her that they seldom get out again, though some few may escape, Ecclesiastes 7:26. The words may be rendered, "all that go into her z shall not return again"; no, very few of them. And it is a very rare thing, when men are fallen into idolatry, superstition, will worship, and heresy, that they are recovered out of this snare of the devil; there is a peradventure they may, but it is not often that they be loosed from it, 2 Timothy 2:25;

neither take they hold of the paths of life; Christ, and the ways of Christ, which lead to eternal life; few there be that find these paths and walk in them, Matthew 7:14; and especially such as are drawn aside by an impure woman, they are held so fast by her alluring charms, and so bewildered by her art of deceiving, that they are like persons that are led out of their way, and cannot find it again.

z כל באיה "omnes ingredientes eam", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words describe more than the fatal persistency of the sinful habit when once formed. A resurrection from that world of the dead to “the paths of life” is all but impossible.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:19. None that go unto her return again — There are very few instances of prostitutes ever returning to the paths of sobriety and truth; perhaps not one of such as become prostitutes through a natural propensity to debauchery. Among those who have been deceived, debauched, and abandoned, many have been reclaimed; and to such alone penitentiaries may be useful; to the others they may only be incentives to farther sinning. Rakes and debauchees are sometimes converted: but most of them never lay hold on the path of life; they have had their health destroyed, and never recover it. The original, חיים chaiyim, means lives; not only the health of the body is destroyed, but the soul is ruined. Thus the unhappy man may be said to be doubly slain.


 
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