Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood. New Living Translation They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder. English Standard Version for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. Berean Standard Bible For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. King James Bible For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. New King James Version For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. New American Standard Bible For their feet run to evil, And they are quick to shed blood. NASB 1995 For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood. NASB 1977 For their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed blood. Legacy Standard Bible For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood. Amplified Bible For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood. Christian Standard Bible because their feet run toward evil and they hurry to shed blood. Holman Christian Standard Bible because their feet run toward trouble and they hurry to commit murder. American Standard Version For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because their feet run to evil and hasten to shed innocent blood. Contemporary English Version They are in a big hurry to commit some crime, perhaps even murder. Douay-Rheims Bible For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. English Revised Version For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. GOD'S WORD® Translation because they rush to do evil and hurry to shed blood. Good News Translation They can't wait to do something bad. They're always ready to kill. International Standard Version For they run toward evil; these enticers shed blood without hesitation. JPS Tanakh 1917 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. Literal Standard Version For their feet run to evil, | And they hurry to shed blood. Majority Standard Bible For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. New American Bible [For their feet run to evil, they hasten to shed blood. ] NET Bible for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood. New Revised Standard Version for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood. New Heart English Bible for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. Webster's Bible Translation For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. World English Bible for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. Young's Literal Translation For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Enticement of Sin…15my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. 16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. 17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!… Cross References 1 Samuel 19:10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night. Proverbs 1:17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! Proverbs 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, Proverbs 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them. Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. Treasury of Scripture For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. Jump to Previous Blood Evil Feet Haste Hasten Hurry Life Quick Run Running Rush Shed Sin SwiftJump to Next Blood Evil Feet Haste Hasten Hurry Life Quick Run Running Rush Shed Sin SwiftProverbs 1 1. The use of the proverbs7. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word 10. to avoid the enticing of sinners 20. Wisdom complains of her contempt 24. She threatens her contemners (16) For their feet . . .--The first reason against taking part with them: the horrible nature of the crime they are committing.Verse 16. - For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. This is the first dissuasive urged to enforce the warning against evil companionship, as showing the extremes to which entering upon the ways of the wicked lead ultimately. At once the youth who listens will be hurried along impetuously to the two crimes of robbery and murder, which God has expressly forbidden in the eighth and sixth commandments respectively of the moral code. Evil (רַע, ra) is "wickedness," τὸ κακόν, generally, but here more specifically highway robbery, latrocinism (Cornelius a Lapide), as appears from vers. 11-13, where also murder, the laying in wait for blood, is proposed. The Rabbis Salomon and Salazar understand the evil to refer to the evil or destruction which sinners bring upon themselves, and the shedding of blood to the fact that they lay themselves open to have their own blond shed by judicial process (see also Holden). The former explanation seems preferable to this, as putting a higher law than that of self-preservation before youth. The fear of judges who can condemn to death is notbing comparatively to the fear of him "who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell." This verse is wanting in the Vatican LXX., and Arabic, and hence Hitzig has concluded that it is an interpolation made from Isaiah 59:7, but upon insufficient evidence, as it is found in the Alexandrian LXX., Chaldea Paraphrase, Vulgate, and Syriac Versions, all which follow the Hebrew text. The latter part of the verse is quoted by St. Paul in Romans 3:15. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction their feet רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם (raḡ·lê·hem) Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda run יָר֑וּצוּ (yā·rū·ṣū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7323: To run to evil, לָרַ֣ע (lā·ra‘) Preposition-l, Article | Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7451: Bad, evil and they are swift וִֽ֝ימַהֲר֗וּ (wî·ma·hă·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 4116: To be liquid, flow easily, to hurry, promptly to shed לִשְׁפָּךְ־ (liš·pāḵ-) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out blood. דָּֽם׃ (dām) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed Links Proverbs 1:16 NIVProverbs 1:16 NLT Proverbs 1:16 ESV Proverbs 1:16 NASB Proverbs 1:16 KJV Proverbs 1:16 BibleApps.com Proverbs 1:16 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 1:16 Chinese Bible Proverbs 1:16 French Bible Proverbs 1:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil (Prov. 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