Proverbs 21:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.

New Living Translation
The violence of the wicked sweeps them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

English Standard Version
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

Berean Study Bible
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

New American Standard Bible
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, Because they refuse to act with justice.

NASB 1995
The violence of the wicked will drag them away, Because they refuse to act with justice.

NASB 1977
The violence of the wicked will drag them away, Because they refuse to act with justice.

Amplified Bible
The violence of the wicked will [return to them and] drag them away [like fish caught in a net], Because they refuse to act with justice.

Christian Standard Bible
The violence of the wicked sweeps them away because they refuse to act justly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The violence of the wicked sweeps them away because they refuse to act justly.

Contemporary English Version
You destroy yourself by being cruel and violent and refusing to live right.

Good News Translation
The wicked are doomed by their own violence; they refuse to do what is right.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The violence of wicked people will drag them away since they refuse to do what is just.

International Standard Version
Devastation caused by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is just.

NET Bible
The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is right.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

New King James Version
The violence of the wicked will destroy them, Because they refuse to do justice.

King James 2000 Bible
The violence of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do justice.

New Heart English Bible
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

World English Bible
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

American King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

American Standard Version
The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.

A Faithful Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them because they refuse to do what is just.

Darby Bible Translation
The devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

English Revised Version
The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away; because they refuse to do judgment.

Webster's Bible Translation
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruccion, for they wolde not do the thynge that was right.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The spoil of the wicked catches them, "" Because they have refused to do judgment.

Young's Literal Translation
The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

Smith's Literal Translation
The violence of the unjust shall sweep them away, for they refuse to do judgment.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The robberies of the impious will drag them down, because they were not willing to do judgment.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The shipwreck of the evil will come upon them, because they did not choose to do justice.

Lamsa Bible
The destruction of the wicked shall come upon them because they refused to do justice.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; Because they refuse to do justly.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.
















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