Proverbs 1:32 - The Scriptures 1998

³² “For the turning away of the simple slays them, And the complacency of fools destroys them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³² For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

Common English Bible

³² The immature will die because they turn away; smugness will destroy fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them.

Proverbs 1:32 Cross References

Psalm 69:22

Let their table before them become a snare, And a trap to those at ease.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous shepherd many, But fools die for lack of heart.

Proverbs 14:16

The wise fears and turns away from evil, But a fool rushes on and is reckless.

Proverbs 2:18

For her house has sunk down to death, And her paths to the dead;

Proverbs 5:22

The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Proverbs 8:36

“But he who sins against me injures himself; All who hate me love death!”

Proverbs 8:5

“You simple ones, understand insight, And you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Isaiah 66:4

“I shall also choose their punishments, and bring their fears on them. Because I called, but no one answered. I spoke and they did not hear, and they did evil before My eyes, and chose what was displeasing to Me.”

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken יהוה  your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,” declares the Master יהוה  of hosts.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those at ease in Tsiyon, and those trusting in Mount Shomeron, the distinguished ones among the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra’ĕ

John 3:36

“He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”

Deuteronomy 28:17

“Cursed is your basket and your kneading bowl.

Hebrews 12:25

Take heed not to refuse the One speaking. For if those did not escape who refused the warning on earth, much less we who turn away from Him from heaven,

Hebrews 12:8

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury, you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.