In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. If I have any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen.’
Proverbs 11:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: But transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The righteousness of the upright [their rectitude in every area and relation] shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity and greedy desire. American Standard Version (1901) The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity. Common English Bible Those who do right are saved by their righteousness, but the untrustworthy are caught by their own desires. Catholic Public Domain Version The justice of the upright shall free them. And the iniquitous will be seized by their own treachery. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares. |
In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. If I have any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen.’
You’ve searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours? Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.
The king also said, ‘You yourself know all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore, the Lord has brought back your evil on your head,
With his mouth the ungodly destroys his neighbour, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
The one who digs a pit may fall into it, and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Then the men of Israel returned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realised that disaster had struck them.