Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself. 15 The simple believes every word, but the wise man watches his step.



Cross References

Proverbs 12:14

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the reward of a man's hands shall be given to him.

Proverbs 1:31-32

and they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own desires.

Proverbs 14:10

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

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 17:5

So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:31

Therefore I have poured out My fury on them. I have burned them up with the fire of My wrath. I have given their way on their heads, says the Lord Jehovah.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel slides back like a backsliding heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those drawing back from Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor asked for Him.

John 4:14

but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Galatians 6:4

But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.

Galatians 6:8

For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

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