Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his.

King James Version

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Holman Bible

The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves,
and a good man, what his deeds deserve.

International Standard Version

The faithless one will pay for his behavior, but a good man will be rewarded for his.

A Conservative Version

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

American Standard Version

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man'shall be satisfied from himself.

Amplified


The backslider in heart will have his fill with his own [rotten] ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his ways [the godly thought and action which his heart pursues and in which he delights].

Bible in Basic English

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

Darby Translation

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.

Julia Smith Translation

He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.

King James 2000

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above himself.

Lexham Expanded Bible

From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and {from his own}, [so shall] a good man.

Modern King James verseion

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

An unfaithful person shall be filled with his own ways; but a good man will beware of such.

NET Bible

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

New Heart English Bible

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

The Emphasized Bible

With his own ways, shall be filled the backslider in heart, and, from himself, shall a good man be satisfied .

Webster

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

World English Bible

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Youngs Literal Translation

From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סוּג 
Cuwg 
Usage: 14

שׂבע שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 98

with his own ways
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

13 Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,
And the end of joy may be grief.
14 The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his.
15 The naive believes everything,
But the sensible man considers his steps.



Cross References

Proverbs 12:14

A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words,
And the deeds of a man’s hands will return to him.

Proverbs 1:31-32

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:5

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,
Turned away in continual apostasy?
They hold fast to deceit,
They refuse to return.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord,
Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:31

Thus I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads,” declares the Lord God.

Hosea 4:16

Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,
Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him.”

John 4:14

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

Galatians 6:4

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

Galatians 6:8

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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