Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. New Living Translation Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes. English Standard Version therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. Berean Standard Bible So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. King James Bible Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. New King James Version Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. New American Standard Bible “So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes. NASB 1995 “So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices. NASB 1977 “So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, And be satiated with their own devices. Legacy Standard Bible So they shall eat of the fruit of their way And be satisfied with their own devices. Amplified Bible “Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own [wicked] way And be satiated with [the penalty of] their own devices. Christian Standard Bible they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes. Holman Christian Standard Bible they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes. American Standard Version Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And they will eat of the fruit of their ways and they will be filled with their counsels. Brenton Septuagint Translation Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness. Contemporary English Version "Now you will eat the fruit of what you have done, until you are stuffed full with your own schemes. Douay-Rheims Bible Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices. English Revised Version Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. GOD'S WORD® Translation They will eat the fruit of their lifestyle. They will be stuffed with their own schemes. Good News Translation So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick. International Standard Version They will eat the fruit of their way, and they will be filled with their own devices. JPS Tanakh 1917 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. Literal Standard Version And they eat of the fruit of their way, | And they are filled from their own counsels. Majority Standard Bible So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. New American Bible Well, then, they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and with their own devices be glutted. NET Bible Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel. New Revised Standard Version therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices. New Heart English Bible Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. World English Bible Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. Young's Literal Translation And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wisdom Calls Aloud…30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. 31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.… Cross References Job 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. Proverbs 5:22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. Proverbs 5:23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly. Proverbs 8:36 But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death." Proverbs 12:14 By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him. Proverbs 13:2 From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence. Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways. Treasury of Scripture Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. Jump to Previous Counsels Designs Devices Eat Filled Food Fruit Full Hearts Sated Satiated Schemes Way WaysJump to Next Counsels Designs Devices Eat Filled Food Fruit Full Hearts Sated Satiated Schemes Way WaysProverbs 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 Verse 31. - Therefore they shall eat, etc. A further enlargement of the declaration of Wisdom, showing that their calamity is the result of their own ways. The futures are resumed in the original from ver. 28. The word "therefore" does not occur, but it is met with in the LXX., τοιγαροῦν; in the Vulgate, igitur; and in the Syriac, ideo. The truth here expressed is accordant with the tenor of the teaching of the Scripture (comp. Proverbs 14:14; Proverbs 22:8; Job 4:8; Isaiah 3:10; Galatians 6:7, 8), and with our daily experience of God's moral government of the world (see Butler, 'Analogy,' part 1, ch. 2, ad fin.). This sentiment of retributive punishment also found expression in Terence, "Tute hoc intristi, tibi omne est edendum" ('Phorm.,' 2. 1. 4). When we are punished, the blameworthiness lies not with God, but with us sinners (Wardlaw). They shall be filled; rather, satiated, or surfeited; saturabuntur (Vulgate). The verb שָׁבַע (shava) means not only "to fill," but "to be satiated or cloyed" (cf. Proverbs 14:14; Proverbs 25:16; Psalm 88:3; Psalm 123:4). Michaelis remarks on this word, "Ad nauseam implebuntur et comedent, ita ut consiliorum suorum vehementer tandem, sed nimis sero, ipsos poeniteat" (Michaelis, 'Notre Uberiores in Prov.'), "They shall be filled and eat ad nauseam, so that at length, but too late, they shall vehemently repent them of their own counsels." Counsels (מועֵצות, moetsoth); i.e. ungodly counsels, or evil devices. The word only occurs in the plural. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew So they {will} eatוְֽ֭יֹאכְלוּ (wə·yō·ḵə·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 398: To eat the fruit מִפְּרִ֣י (mip·pə·rî) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6529: Fruit of their own way, דַרְכָּ֑ם (ḏar·kām) Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action and be filled יִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃ (yiś·bā·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited with their own devices. וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם (ū·mim·mō·‘ă·ṣō·ṯê·hem) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 4156: Counsel, plan, principle, device Links Proverbs 1:31 NIVProverbs 1:31 NLT Proverbs 1:31 ESV Proverbs 1:31 NASB Proverbs 1:31 KJV Proverbs 1:31 BibleApps.com Proverbs 1:31 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 1:31 Chinese Bible Proverbs 1:31 French Bible Proverbs 1:31 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 1:31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit (Prov. 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