Proverbs 28:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ A man tormented by the guilt of murder flees to the Pit—let no one support him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person Shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If a man willfully sheds the blood of a person [and keeps the guilt of murder upon his conscience], he is fleeing to the pit (the grave) and hastening to his own destruction; let no man stop him!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ If someone feels guilty about murder, don’t hold them back from fleeing to the pit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him.

Proverbs 28:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 4:12

As often as you work the ground, it will not yield its crops to you again. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 9:6

The one who sheds human blood, by a human will his blood be shed, for in God’s image He made humanity.

2 Samuel 13:34

Meanwhile Absalom had fled. When the young watchman lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, there were many people coming down the road behind him on the hillside.

2 Samuel 18:15

Then ten young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck and finished him off.

1 Kings 2:29

It was reported to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the Tent of Adonai, and behold, he was by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying: “Go, strike him down!”

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: Have you murdered and then taken possession?’ You shall also speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood too.’”

1 Kings 21:23

“Adonai has also spoken about Jezebel saying: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

2 Kings 9:26

‘As surely as I have seen the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday—it is a declaration of Adonai—I will repay you on this property—it is a declaration of Adonai.’ So now pick him up and throw him onto the property, just as in the word of Adonai.”

Exodus 21:14

If a man presumes to kill his neighbor with craftiness, you are to take him from My altar and put him to death.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Jeremiah 41:15

But Ishmael son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to Ammon’s children.

Acts 28:4

When the natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Though he has been saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But suppose someone hates his neighbor, waits in hiding for him, rises up against him, strikes him dead, then flees to one of these cities.