Proverbs 11:19
New International Version
Truly the righteous attain life, but whoever pursues evil finds death.

New Living Translation
Godly people find life; evil people find death.

English Standard Version
Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

Berean Standard Bible
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

King James Bible
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

New King James Version
As righteousness leads to life, So he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

New American Standard Bible
One who is steadfast in righteousness attains life, But one who pursues evil attains his own death.

NASB 1995
He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life, And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.

NASB 1977
He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life, And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.

Legacy Standard Bible
He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life, And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.

Amplified Bible
He who is steadfast in righteousness attains life, But he who pursues evil attains his own death.

Christian Standard Bible
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but pursuing evil leads to death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but pursuing evil leads to death.

American Standard Version
He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A son of righteousness has life and he who does evil has death.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A righteous son is born for life: but the persecution of the ungodly ends in death.

Contemporary English Version
Always do the right thing, and you will live; keep on doing wrong, and you will die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

English Revised Version
He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life: and he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As righteousness leads to life, so whoever pursues evil finds his own death.

Good News Translation
Anyone who is determined to do right will live, but anyone who insists on doing wrong will die.

International Standard Version
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but whoever pursues evil will die.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Stedfast righteousness tendeth to life; But he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Literal Standard Version
Correctly [is] righteousness for life, | And whoever is pursuing evil—for his own death.

Majority Standard Bible
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

New American Bible
Justice leads toward life, but pursuit of evil, toward death.

NET Bible
True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

New Heart English Bible
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

Webster's Bible Translation
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

World English Bible
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

Young's Literal Translation
Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death.

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Context
Dishonest Scales
18The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward. 19Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death. 20The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.…

Cross References
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

James 1:15
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Proverbs 1:18
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 10:16
The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.

Proverbs 12:28
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

Proverbs 21:16
The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.


Treasury of Scripture

As righteousness tends to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

righteousness

Proverbs 10:16
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

he

Proverbs 1:16-19
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood…

Proverbs 7:22,23
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; …

Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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(19) As righteousness tendeth to life.--Rather, genuine righteousness tendeth to life.

Verse 19. - This verse is not to be connected with the preceding, as in the margin of the Revised Version, "so righteousness," etc., each couplet in these chapters being independent, the connection, such as it is, being maintained by the use of catchwords, such as "righteous," "wicked," "upright," etc. As righteousness tendeth to life. The various uses of the first word כֵן (ken) have led to different renderings. The Authorized Version takes it for "as;" the Revised Version as an adjective: He that is steadfast in righteousness. It is, perhaps, better, with Nowack, to regard it as an adverb: "He who is honestly, strictly, of righteousness, is to life." The meaning is plain: real, genuine righteousness hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come (1 Timothy 4:8). The LXX., reading בֵן (ben), translate, "A righteous son is born for life." He that pursueth evil (Proverbs 13:21); Septuagint, "the persecution of the impious," i.e. that which an impious man inflicts. But the Authorized Version is correct, and the clause means that he who practises evil brings ruin eventually on himself - a warning trite, but unheeded (comp. Proverbs 1:18).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Genuine
כֵּן־ (kên-)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

righteousness
צְדָקָ֥ה (ṣə·ḏā·qāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

leads to life,
לְחַיִּ֑ים (lə·ḥay·yîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

but the pursuit
וּמְרַדֵּ֖ף (ū·mə·rad·dêp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute

of evil
רָעָ֣ה (rā·‘āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

brings death.
לְמוֹתֽוֹ׃ (lə·mō·w·ṯōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


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