Proverbs 1:16

New Century Version

They are eager to do evil and are quick to kill.

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 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

¹⁰ My child, if sinners try to lead you into sin, do not follow them. ¹¹ They will say, "Come with us. Let's ambush and kill someone; let's attack some innocent people just for fun. ¹² Let's swallow them alive, as death does; let's swallow them whole, as the grave does. ¹³ We will take all kinds of valuable things and fill our houses with stolen goods. ¹⁴ Come join us, and we will share with you stolen goods." ¹⁵ My child, do not go along with them; do not do what they do. ¹⁶ They are eager to do evil and are quick to kill. ¹⁷ It is useless to spread out a net right where the birds can see it. ¹⁸ But sinners will fall into their own traps; they will only catch themselves! ¹⁹ All greedy people end up this way; greed kills selfish people.

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
So God made the air and placed some of the water above the air and some below it.

Genesis 1:8
God named the air "sky." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so the dry land will appear." And it happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look up at the sky, you see the sun, moon, and stars, and everything in the sky. But don't bow down and worship them, because the Lord your God has made these things for all people everywhere.

Job 31:26
I have not thought about worshiping the sun in its brightness nor admired the moon moving in glory

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted with joy?

Psalms 8:3
I look at your heavens, which you made with your fingers. I see the moon and stars, which you created.

Psalms 19:6
The sun rises at one end of the sky and follows its path to the other end. Nothing hides from its 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.