Proverbs 1:16

New Living Translation

They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder.

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

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 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 entice you, turn your back on them! ¹¹ They may say, "Come and join us. Let's hide and kill someone! Just for fun, let's ambush the innocent! ¹² Let's swallow them alive, like the grave; let's swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death. ¹³ Think of the great things we'll get! We'll fill our houses with all the stuff we take. ¹⁴ Come, throw in your lot with us; we'll all share the loot." ¹⁵ My child, don't go along with them! Stay far away from their paths. ¹⁶ They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder. ¹⁷ If a bird sees a trap being set, it knows to stay away. ¹⁸ But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed. ¹⁹ Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.

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
And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.

Genesis 1:8
God called the space "sky." And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear." And that is what happened.

Genesis 1:12
The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don't be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.

Job 31:26
"Have I looked at the sun shining in the skies, or the moon walking down its silver pathway,

Job 38:7
as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

Psalms 8:3
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place—

Psalms 19:6
The sun rises at one end of the heavens and follows its course to the other end. Nothing can hide 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.