New Revised Standard Version
The wicked covet the proceeds of wickedness, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.

Contemporary English Version
An evil person tries to hide behind evil; good people are like trees with deep roots.

New American Bible
A wicked person desires the catch of evil people, but the root of the righteous will bear fruit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

desireth

Proverbs 1:17-19 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. . . .

Proverbs 29:5,6 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet. . . .

Psalm 9:15 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 10:9 His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.

Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men. . . .

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Habakkuk 1:15-17 He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice. . . .

net or fortress

Proverbs 10:15 The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin.

the root

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Isaiah 27:6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

Isaiah 37:31 And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is left, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:

Jeremiah 17:7,8 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. . . .

Luke 8:13-15 Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away. . . .

John 15:5,16 I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. . . .

Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.