If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
Proverbs 1:19 - King James 2000 So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which 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 its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.
Whosoever is partner with a thief hates his own soul: he hears cursing, and reveals it not.
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.
Woe to him that covets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of ruin!
Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, 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.
And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.