Proverbs 21:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ A man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the spirits (of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ People who wander from the path of insight will rest in the company of the dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ A man who wanders astray from the way of doctrine will linger in the company of the giants.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

Proverbs 21:16 Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Proverbs 11:19

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 19:16

Those who keep the commandment will live; those who are heedless of their ways will die.

Proverbs 2:13

who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 5:23

They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered, for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead through the trespasses and sins

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.

Jude 1:12

These are blots on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;