Proverbs 29:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: He heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own life; he falls under the curse [pronounced upon him who knows who the thief is] but discloses nothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul; He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Those who share plunder with thieves hate themselves; even under oath, they don’t testify.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Whoever participates with a thief hates his own soul; for he listens to his oath and does not denounce him.

Proverbs 29:24 Cross References

Proverbs 15:32

He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who heeds admonition gains understanding.

Proverbs 20:2

The dread wrath of a king is like the growling of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Leviticus 5:1

“If any one sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his inquity.

Mark 11:17

And he taught, and said to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Judges 17:2

And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”

1 Samuel 20:2

And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me; and why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”