Proverbs 18:1
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Break Desire Estranged Goes Good Intermeddleth Judgment Keeps Pleasure Pretexts Private Purpose Pursues Quarrels Rageth Seeketh Seeks Selfish Selfishness Sense Separate Separated Separates Separateth Sound Vehement Wisdom
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Break Desire Estranged Goes Good Intermeddleth Judgment Keeps Pleasure Pretexts Private Purpose Pursues Quarrels Rageth Seeketh Seeks Selfish Selfishness Sense Separate Separated Separates Separateth Sound Vehement Wisdom
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.

New American Standard Bible
He who separates himself seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

King James Bible
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

International Standard Version
Whoever isolates himself pursues selfish ends; he resists all sound advice.

NET Bible
One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In his idleness one meditates on lust and mocks at good instruction.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A loner is out to get what he wants for himself. He opposes all sound reasoning.

King James 2000 Bible
A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.

American King James Version
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.

American Standard Version
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that hath a mind to depart from a friend seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.

Darby Bible Translation
He that separateth himself seeketh his pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom.

English Revised Version
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, and rageth against all sound wisdom.

Webster's Bible Translation
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

World English Bible
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Young's Literal Translation
For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.
Lexicon
Through desire
ta'avah  (tah-av-aw')
a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm) -- dainty, desire, exceedingly, greedily, lust(ing), pleasant.
a man having separated
parad  (paw-rad')
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself) -- disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
himself seeketh
baqash  (baw-kash')
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
and intermeddleth
gala`  (gaw-lah')
to be obstinate -- (inter-)meddle (with).
with all wisdom
tuwshiyah  (too-shee-yaw')
from an unused root probably meaning to substantiate; support or (by implication) ability, i.e. (direct) help, (in purpose) an undertaking, (intellectual) understanding
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