Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
Proverbs 1:32 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.] American Standard Version (1901) For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. Common English Bible The immature will die because they turn away; smugness will destroy fools. Catholic Public Domain Version The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. |
Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?
The lips of the righteous feed many: But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
O ye simple, understand subtilty; And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not, when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape, who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.