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Proverbs 19:3

A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Murmuring;   Thompson Chain Reference - Content-Discontent;   Murmuring;   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Heart;   Man;   Perversion;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;   Murmuring;   Resignation;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - All-Sufficiency of God;   Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fret, Fretting;   Subvert;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord .
Update Bible Version
The foolishness of man subverts his way; And his heart frets against Yahweh.
New Century Version
People's own foolishness ruins their lives, but in their minds they blame the Lord .
Webster's Bible Translation
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
World English Bible
The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.
Amplified Bible
The foolishness of man undermines his way [ruining whatever he undertakes]; Then his heart is resentful and rages against the LORD [for, being a fool, he blames the LORD instead of himself].
English Standard Version
When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord .
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The foli of a man disseyueth hise steppis; and he brenneth in his soule ayens God.
English Revised Version
The foolishness of man subverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
A man's own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
We are ruined by our own stupidity, though we blame the Lord .
American Standard Version
The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
Complete Jewish Bible
A person's own folly is what ruins his way, but he rages in his heart against Adonai .
Darby Translation
The folly of man distorteth his way, and his heart is irritated against Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
People ruin their lives with the foolish things they do, and then they blame the Lord for it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The foolishness of man perverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
The foolishnesse of man peruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
New Life Bible
The foolish acts of man make his way bad, and his heart is angry toward the Lord.
New Revised Standard
One's own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the Lord .
Geneva Bible (1587)
The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
The folly of a man perverts his ways; he frets in his heart against the LORD.
Good News Translation
Some people ruin themselves by their own stupid actions and then blame the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The folly of a man, subverteth his way, and, against Yahweh, his heart is angry.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The folly of a man supplanteth his steps: and he fretteth in his mind against God.
Revised Standard Version
When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The folly of a man spoils his ways: and he blames God in his heart.
Christian Standard Bible®
A person’s own foolishness leads him astray,yet his heart rages against the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against the LORD.
King James Version
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.
Literal Translation
The foolishness of man overturns his way, and his heart rages against Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.
THE MESSAGE
People ruin their lives by their own stupidity, so why does God always get blamed?
New American Standard Bible
The foolishness of a person ruins his way, And his heart rages against the LORD.
New King James Version
The foolishness of a man twists his way, And his heart frets against the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The foolishness of man ruins his way, And his heart rages against the LORD.
Legacy Standard Bible
The folly of man subverts his way,But his heart rages against Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

3 A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

foolishness: Genesis 3:6-12, Genesis 4:5-14, Numbers 16:19-41, Numbers 17:12, Numbers 17:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 15:23, 1 Samuel 22:13-23, 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Kings 20:43, 2 Kings 3:9, 2 Kings 3:10, 2 Kings 6:33, 2 Chronicles 16:9, 2 Chronicles 16:10, Acts 13:45, Acts 13:46

fretteth: Psalms 37:1, Psalms 37:7, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:22, Revelation 16:9-11

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:12 - General Genesis 27:34 - he cried Numbers 14:39 - mourned greatly Deuteronomy 1:41 - We have sinned Judges 21:3 - why is 2 Samuel 17:23 - saw Jeremiah 3:21 - for they have Lamentations 3:39 - doth Ezekiel 18:29 - General Ezekiel 33:20 - Yet

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
Genesis 19:28
He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham's request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
Genesis 21:8
The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Exodus 12:15
For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:39
They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast—because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.
Judges 6:19
Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.
1 Samuel 28:24
Now the woman had a well-fed calf at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The foolishness of man perverteth his way,.... The sinfulness of his heart and nature; the folly which is bound up in it causes him to go astray out of the way in which he should go, or makes things go cross with him; so that the ways he takes do not prosper, nor his schemes succeed; but everything goes against him, and he is brought into straits and difficulties;

and his heart fretteth against the Lord; laying all the blame on him; and ascribing his ill success, not to his own sin and folly, but to divine Providence, which works against him; and therefore frets and murmurs at him; and, instead of charging his own ways with folly, charges the ways of God with inequality; see Ezekiel 18:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The non-wisdom which, having brought about disasters by its own perverseness, then turns round and “fretteth,” i. e., angrily complains against the Providence of God.

Perverteth - Rather, “overturneth,” “maketh to fail.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:3. The foolishness of man — Most men complain of cross providences, because they get into straits and difficulties through the perverseness of their ways; and thus they fret against God; whereas, in every instance, they are the causes of their own calamities. O how inconsistent is man!


 
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