Proverbs 1:19
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New International Version (©1984)
Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
So are the ways of all who do evil and take the lives of their Masters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This is what happens to everyone who is greedy for unjust gain. Greed takes away his life.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are destructive of true life.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Which taketh away the life - A covetous man is in effect, and in the sight of God, a murderer; he wishes to get all the gain that can accrue to any or all who are in the same business that he follows - no matter to him how many families starve in consequence. This is the very case with him who sets up shop after shop in different parts of the same town or neighborhood, in which he carries on the same business, and endeavors to undersell others in the same trade, that he may get all into his own hand.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain,.... That is set upon getting riches in an unlawful way, by robberies and murder; his ways will end in the loss of his own blood and life, and in the loss of his immortal soul; this will be what his wicked ways and course of life will bring him to, and what will his gain profit him then? it would be of no use and service to him could he have gained the whole world;

which taketh away the life of the owners thereof: or who, even every one of those that are greedy of gain, and will be rich at any rate; such stick not to take away the life of the proper owners of that gain, or money they are greedy of, in order to get it into their own possession; and such wicked practices cannot fail of meeting with a just recompence of reward: or "which" covetous gain, or gain gotten in such a wicked manner, will be the cause of the life of the injurious masters and wrong possessors of it being taken away from them, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by God himself. These sins of robbery and murder are particularly instanced in, not only because other sins lead unto them, as sabbath breaking, drunkenness, and lewdness, and issue in temporal and eternal ruin; but because they were very common among the Jews at the time that Wisdom, or Christ, was here on earth: to which time the whole passage refers, as appears from the following verses; and that those sins were frequent then is manifest both from Scripture; see Matthew 27:38; and from the confessions of the Jews, who say (z) that forty years before the destruction of the temple the sanhedrim were obliged to remove from place to place, because that murderers increased, and they could not judge and condemn them, for fear of being murdered themselves; and it was because of this great increase they were obliged to stop the beheading of the red heifer (a).

(z) T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 8. 2.((a) Misnah Sotah, c. 9. s. 9.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

An epiphonema:

Such is the lot of all who indulge in covetousness;

It takes away the life of its owner.

This language is formed after Job 8:13. Here, as there, in the word ארחות, the ideas of action and issue, manner of life and its result, are all combined. בּצע signifies properly that which is cut off, a piece, fragment broken off, then that which one breaks off and takes to himself - booty, gain, particularly unjust gain (Proverbs 28:16). בּצע בּצע is he who is greedy or covetous. The subject to יקּח is בּצע, covetousness, πλεονεξία (see Isaiah 57:17). As Hoses, Job 4:11, says of three other things that they taken away לב, the understanding (νοῦς), so here we are taught regarding unjust gain or covetousness, that it takes away נפשׁ, the life (ψυχή) (לקח נפשׁ, to take away the life, 1 Kings 19:10; Psalm 31:14). בּעליו denotes not the possessor of unjust gain, but as an inward conception, like בעל אף, Proverbs 22:24, cf. Proverbs 23:2; Proverbs 24:8; Ecclesiastes 10:11, him of whom covetousness is the property. The sing. נפשׁ does not show that בּעליו is thought of as sing.; cf. Proverbs 22:23, Psalm 34:23; but according to Proverbs 3:27; Proverbs 16:22; Ecclesiastes 8:8, this is nevertheless probable, although the usage without the suffix is always בּעל בּצע, and not בּעלי (of plur. intens. בּעלים).


Geneva Study Bible

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away {p} the life of the owners thereof.

(p) By which he concludes that the covetous man is a murderer.


Wesley's Notes

1:19 Greedy - That seeks gain by wicked practices.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! Consent thou not. Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth; but it is neither substance, nor precious. It is the ruinous mistake of thousands, that they overvalue the wealth of this world. Men promise themselves in vain that sin will turn to their advantage. The way of sin is down-hill; men cannot stop themselves. Would young people shun temporal and eternal ruin, let them refuse to take one step in these destructive paths. Men's greediness of gain hurries them upon practices which will not suffer them or others to live out half their days. What is a man profited, though he gain the world, if he lose his life? much less if he lose his soul?


Proverbs 15:27 A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;

Dishonest End Fate Gain Gainer Gains Goes Greedy Ill-Gotten Life Owners Possessors Profit Search Thereof Violence Ways


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

every 15:27 23:3,4 2Sa 18:11-13 2Ki 5:20-27 Jer 22:17-19 Mic 2:1-3 3:10-12 Hab 2:9 Ac 8:19,20 1Ti 3:3 6:9,10 Jas 5:1-4 2Pe 2:3,14-16

taketh Job 31:39 Ec 5:13

Proverbs Chapter 1 Verse 19

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