Proverbs 17:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Evil people seek only rebellion, but a cruel messenger will be sent against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ An evil man seeketh only rebellion: Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a stern and pitiless messenger shall be sent against him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Evil people seek only rebellion; a cruel messenger will be sent against them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ The evil one continually seeks conflicts. But a cruel Angel shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 17:11 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

1 Kings 2:46

Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

Luke 19:27

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.’ ”

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Matthew 21:41

They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”

1 Kings 2:31

The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise plan. And they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, and all went to their homes, while Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a scoundrel named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and cried out, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”

2 Samuel 18:19

Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Let me run and carry tidings to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the power of his enemies.”

2 Samuel 15:12

While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. The conspiracy grew in strength, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs than to confront a fool immersed in folly.

Proverbs 24:21

My child, fear the Lord and the king, and do not disobey either of them,