New Revised Standard Version
The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.

Contemporary English Version
Meanness gets you nowhere, but goodness is rewarded.

New American Bible
The wicked make empty profits, but those who sow justice have a sure reward.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

wicked

Proverbs 1:18 So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Job 27:13-23 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Isaiah 59:5-8 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. . . .

Ephesians 4:22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

but

Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. . . .

Hosea 10:12,13 Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice. . . .

Galatians 6:8,9 For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. . . .

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.