if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their life,
Proverbs 1:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain; such [greed for plunder] takes away the lives of its possessors. [Prov. 15:27; I Tim. 6:10.] American Standard Version (1901) So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Common English Bible These are the ways of all who seek unjust gain; it costs them their lives. Catholic Public Domain Version Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors. |
if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their life,
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
when I saw among the spoil a goodly mantle of Shin`ar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Yehoshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. All Yisra'el stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.