Proverbs 1:16

Easy-to-Read Version

They run to do something evil, and they cannot wait to kill someone.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because their feet run toward eviland they hurry to shed blood.

Hebrew Names Version
For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

King James Version
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

English Standard Version
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

New Century Version
They are eager to do evil and are quick to kill.

New English Translation
for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

Amplified Bible
For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.

New American Standard Bible
For their feet run to evil, And they are quick to shed blood.

World English Bible
For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

Legacy Standard Bible
For their feet run to evilAnd they hasten to shed blood.

Berean Standard Bible
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Contemporary English Version
They are in a big hurry to commit some crime, perhaps even murder.

Complete Jewish Bible
Their feet run to evil, they rush to shed blood.

Darby Translation
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

George Lamsa Translation
For their feet run to evil, they make haste to shed blood.

Good News Translation
They can't wait to do something bad. They're always ready to kill.

Lexham English Bible
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,

Literal Translation
for their feet run to evil and they haste to shed blood.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude.

American Standard Version
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

Bible in Basic English
For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

King James Version (1611)
For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood.

English Revised Version
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood.

Webster's Bible Translation
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

New King James Version
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

New Living Translation
They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder.

New Life Bible
For their feet run to sin and hurry to kill.

New Revised Standard
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, their feet, to mischief, do run, and haste to the shedding of blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Revised Standard Version
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Young's Literal Translation
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ My son, those who love to do wrong will try to trick you. Don't listen to them. ¹¹ They will say, "Come with us. Let's hide and beat to death anyone who happens to walk by. ¹² We will swallow them whole, as the grave swallows the dying. ¹³ We will take everything they have and fill our houses with stolen goods. ¹⁴ So join us, and you can share everything we get." ¹⁵ My son, don't follow them. Don't even take the first step along that path. ¹⁶ They run to do something evil, and they cannot wait to kill someone. ¹⁷ You cannot trap birds with a net if they see you spreading it out. ¹⁸ But evil people cannot see the trap they set for themselves. ¹⁹ This is what happens to those who are greedy. Whatever they get destroys them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 4:16, Proverbs 6:18, Isaiah 59:7, Romans 3:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then Genesis 37:20 - and let Genesis 49:6 - come Exodus 1:22 - Every son Numbers 22:21 - General Numbers 22:40 - General 1 Samuel 23:14 - Saul 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search 2 Samuel 17:1 - I will arise Esther 3:15 - hastened Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 59:4 - run Psalms 94:21 - gather Proverbs 1:11 - let us lay Proverbs 11:19 - he Proverbs 19:2 - and Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Matthew 14:8 - Give Mark 6:25 - with haste John 13:27 - That John 18:28 - early Acts 23:15 - that he Romans 3:15 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the space and separated the water. Some of the water was above it, and some of the water was below it.

Genesis 1:8
God named that space "sky." There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear." And it happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth grew grass and plants that made grain. And it grew trees that made fruit with seeds in it. Every plant made its own kind of seeds. And God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. They will be used for signs to show when special meetings begin and to show the days and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
And be careful when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon, and the stars—all the many things in the sky. Be careful that you are not tempted to worship and serve them. The Lord your God lets the other people in the world do this.

Job 31:26
I have never worshiped the bright sun or the beautiful moon.

Job 38:7
when the morning stars sang together and the angels shouted with joy?

Psalms 8:3
I look at the heavens you made with your hands. I see the moon and the stars you created.

Psalms 19:6
It starts at one end of the sky and runs all the way to the other end. Nothing can hide from its heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For their feet run to evil,.... To the evil of sin, to commit robberies and murder, and all manner of iniquity; they are eager upon it, and in haste and swift to do it, Proverbs 6:18 x; being carried away with their inordinate affections, which are as feet to the soul; and drawn aside with their lusts, and pushed on by Satan, and, encouraged by one another, and so rush on headlong to the evil of punishment also; and which is a reason why their ways and paths should be abstained from, because they bring upon them swift destruction; it is to their own hurt they run, as Jarchi interprets it; though the first sense seems best to agree with what follows;

and make haste to shed blood; the blood of innocent persons, in order to get their substance, to cover their iniquity and shame, and that no information may be given of them; this is mentioned as having something very horrible in it, in order to deter from joining with them.

x "Velox ad facinus", Claudian. in Rufin. l. 1. v. 240.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:16. For their feet run to evil — The whole of this verse is wanting in the Septuagint, and in the Arabic.