Proverbs 1:19 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁹ Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ These are the ways of all who seek unjust gain; it costs them their lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 1:19 Tagairtí Cros

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,

Psalm 7:16

His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;

Proverbs 15:27

Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 29:24

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

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.