Proverbs 21:16
Good News Translation
Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Contemporary English Version
If you stop using good sense, you will find yourself in the grave.

New American Bible
Whoever strays from the way of good sense will abide in the assembly of the shades.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

wandereth

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Psalm 125:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Zephaniah 1:6 And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

John 3:19,20 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, . . .

Hebrews 10:26,27,38 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: . . .

2 Peter 2:21,22 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. . . .

1 John 2:19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us.

remain

Proverbs 2:18,19 None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life. . . .

Proverbs 7:26,27 Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death. . . .

Proverbs 9:18 A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Ephesians 2:1 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

Context
The King's Heart
15It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity. 16A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.17He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.…
Cross References
Psalm 49:14
They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

Proverbs 2:13
Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:

Proverbs 11:19
A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.

Ezekiel 18:24
But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

Proverbs 21:15
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