Proverbs 21:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ A man who 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 upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in 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

He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 19:16

He who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the word will die.

Proverbs 2:13

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

Proverbs 5:23

He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”

Ephesians 2:1

And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;