Proverbs 19:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: And his heart fretteth against the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The foolishness of man subverts his way [ruins his affairs]; then his heart is resentful and frets against the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³ People’s own folly corrupts their way, but their hearts rage against the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The foolishness of a man undermines his steps. And then he seethes in his soul against God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ The folly of a man supplanteth his seeps: and he fretteth in his mind against God.

Proverbs 19:3 Cross References

2 Kings 6:33

And while he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

Job 15:13

that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Psalm 37:1

Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!

Psalm 37:7

Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Isaiah 32:6

For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Lamentations 3:39

Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?

Ezekiel 18:25

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

1 Samuel 13:13

And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you; for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel for ever.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”