Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Proverbs 1:32 - King James 2000 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. Common English Bible The immature will die because they turn away; smugness will destroy fools. Catholic Public Domain Version The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. |
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.
A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be of an understanding heart.
But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons.
You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.