Proverbs 8:36
New International Version
But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

New Living Translation
But those who miss me injure themselves. All who hate me love death.”

English Standard Version
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Berean Standard Bible
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

King James Bible
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

New King James Version
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”

New American Standard Bible
“But one who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”

NASB 1995
“But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”

NASB 1977
“But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”

Legacy Standard Bible
But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”

Amplified Bible
“But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love and court death.”

Christian Standard Bible
but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

American Standard Version
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And those who sin against me harm their soul, and all who hate me are the friends of death.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.

Contemporary English Version
But if you don't find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.

English Revised Version
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Whoever sins against me harms himself. All those who hate me love death."

Good News Translation
Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."

International Standard Version
But whoever sins against me destroys himself; everyone who hates me loves death."

JPS Tanakh 1917
But he that misseth me wrongeth his own soul; All they that hate me love death.'

Literal Standard Version
And whoever is missing me, is wronging his soul, | All hating me have loved death!”

Majority Standard Bible
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

New American Bible
But those who pass me by do violence to themselves; all who hate me love death.”

NET Bible
But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."

New Revised Standard Version
but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

New Heart English Bible
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

Webster's Bible Translation
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

World English Bible
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

Young's Literal Translation
And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

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Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD. 36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Cross References
Job 35:6
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

Proverbs 1:31
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 1:32
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 5:12
and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

Proverbs 15:32
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Proverbs 20:2
The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.


Treasury of Scripture

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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Proverbs 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 20:2
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

John 3:19,20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil…

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Proverbs 5:11,12,22,23
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, …

Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:11
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

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Proverbs 8
1. the fame
6. and evidence of wisdom
10. The excellence
12. the nature
15. the power
18. the riches
22. and the eternity of wisdom
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(36) He that sinneth against me.--Rather, He that misses me does not find me. So in Greek, sin (???????) is a "missing" of the true object of life.

Verse 36. - He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul. So Septuagint and Vulgate. And the truth stated is obvious - he who refuses to obey Wisdom, and transgresses her wholesome rules, will smart for it. Every sin involves punishment, injures the spiritual life, and demands satisfaction. But Delitzsch and others take חֹטְאִי, "my sinning one," "my sinner," in the older sense of "missing," as Job 5:24, the derived meaning of "sinning" springing naturally from the idea of deviating from the right way or failing to hit the mark. So here the translation will be "he who misseth me," which is a good contrast to "whoso findeth me," of ver. 35. He who takes a path which does not lead to wisdom is guilty of moral suicide. All that hate me love death (Proverbs 7:27). "He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36). They who will not hearken to Wisdom, and who scorn her counsels, do virtually love death, because they love the things and the practices which lead to death, temporal and spiritual Job 12:10, "They that sin are enemies to their own life" (comp. Wisd. 1:12).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but he who fails to find me
וְֽ֭חֹטְאִי (wə·ḥō·ṭə·’î)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

harms
חֹמֵ֣ס (ḥō·mês)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2554: To treat violently or wrong

himself;
נַפְשׁ֑וֹ (nap̄·šōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

who hate me
מְ֝שַׂנְאַ֗י (mə·śan·’ay)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8130: To hate

love
אָ֣הֲבוּ (’ā·hă·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 157: To have affection f

death.”
מָֽוֶת׃ (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


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