Proverbs 17:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 17:11 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:12

And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.

2 Samuel 18:15

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

2 Samuel 18:19

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

2 Samuel 20:1

Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

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 which Joab shed without cause.

1 Kings 2:46

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

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 24:21

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

Matthew 21:41

They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

Matthew 22:7

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Luke 19:27

But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”