Proverbs 1:19
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English Standard Version
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

New American Standard Bible
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.

King James Bible
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.

International Standard Version
Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain— it takes away the lives of those who possess it.

NET Bible
Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So are the ways of all who do evil and take the lives of their Masters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what happens to everyone who is greedy for unjust gain. Greed takes away his life.

King James 2000 Bible
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

American King James Version
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Darby Bible Translation
So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

English Revised Version
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

World English Bible
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Young's Literal Translation
So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
Lexicon
So are the ways
'orach  (o'-rakh)
a well-trodden road; also a caravan -- manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-)way.
of every one that is greedy
batsa`  (baw-tsah')
figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop -- (be) covet(-ous), cut (off), finish, fulfill, gain (greedily), get, be given to (covetousness), greedy, perform, be wounded.
of gain
betsa`  (beh'-tsah)
plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust) -- covetousness, (dishonest) gain, lucre, profit.
which taketh away
laqach  (law-kakh')
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
the life
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
of the owners
ba`al  (bah'-al)
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense) + married, master, person, + sworn, they of.
thereof
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