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Proverbs 21:16

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dead (People);   Death;   Hades;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead;   Estrangement;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   Life-Death;   Sin;   Wanderers;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   Straying;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Rephaim;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Giants;   Hell;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Giants;   Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Rephaim;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Abyss;   Giant;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Rephaim;   Sheol;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The person who strays from common sense will end up in the company of the dead.
Update Bible Version
[The] man that wanders out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
New Century Version
Whoever does not use good sense will end up among the dead.
Webster's Bible Translation
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
World English Bible
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Amplified Bible
A man who wanders from the way of understanding (godly wisdom) Will remain in the assembly of the dead.
English Standard Version
One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man that errith fro the weie of doctryn, schal dwelle in the cumpany of giauntis.
English Revised Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall rest in the congregation of the dead.
Berean Standard Bible
The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Contemporary English Version
If you stop using good sense, you will find yourself in the grave.
American Standard Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Bible in Basic English
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Complete Jewish Bible
The person who strays from the way of common sense will come to rest in the company of the dead.
Darby Translation
The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom shall abide in the congregation of the dead.
Easy-to-Read Version
Whoever leaves the path of wisdom will be on their way to an early death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The man that strayeth out of the way of understanding shall rest in the congregation of the shades.
King James Version (1611)
The man that wandreth out of the way of vnderstanding, shall remaine in the congregation of the dead.
New Life Bible
A man who goes away from the way of understanding will rest in the gathering of the dead.
New Revised Standard
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A man that wandreth out of the way of wisdome, shall remaine in the congregation of the dead.
George Lamsa Translation
The man who wanders from the way of understanding shall lie in the congregation of the dead.
Good News Translation
Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The man who wandereth from the way of discretion, in the gathered host of the shades, shall settle down.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.
Revised Standard Version
A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The man that wandereth out of the way of wysdome, shall remaine in the congregation of the dead.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A man that wanders out of the way of righteousness, shall rest in the congregation of giants.
Christian Standard Bible®
The person who strays from the way of prudencewill come to rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
Hebrew Names Version
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
King James Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Lexham English Bible
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.
Literal Translation
The man who wanders out of the way of prudence shall rest in the congregation of departed spirits.
Young's Literal Translation
A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The man that wandreth out of the waye of wy?dome, shal remayne in the cogregacion of ye deed.
THE MESSAGE
Whoever wanders off the straight and narrow ends up in a congregation of ghosts.
New American Standard Bible
A person who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.
New King James Version
A man who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Legacy Standard Bible
A man who wanders from the way of insightWill rest in the assembly of the dead.

Contextual Overview

16 The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wandereth: Proverbs 13:20, Psalms 125:5, Zephaniah 1:6, John 3:19, John 3:20, Hebrews 6:4-6, Hebrews 10:26, Hebrews 10:27, Hebrews 10:38, 2 Peter 2:21, 2 Peter 2:22, 1 John 2:19

remain: Proverbs 2:18, Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 7:26, Proverbs 7:27, Proverbs 9:18, Ephesians 2:1, Jude 1:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:19 - and Psalms 119:10 - O let me Proverbs 2:13 - leave Proverbs 27:8 - man Ezekiel 18:24 - in his 1 John 3:14 - that loveth

Cross-References

Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father, "Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!" Then Esau wept loudly.
Genesis 29:11
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.
Genesis 44:34
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."
Judges 2:4
When the Lord 's messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
Ruth 1:9
May the Lord enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!" Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.
1 Samuel 24:16
When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" Then Saul wept loudly.
1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.
1 Kings 3:26
The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said, "My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don't kill him!" But the other woman said, "Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!"
Esther 8:6
For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?"
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding,.... The way of getting understanding, the good ways and word of God; that wanders from the house of God, the assembly of the saints, where the Gospel is preached, and the ordinances are administered; that, instead of attending on them, where he might gain the understanding of divine and spiritual things, wanders about in the fields, gets into bad company, walks with them in their ways, and turns to his own, as a sheep that goes astray: he

shall remain in the congregation of the dead; among those that are spiritually dead, dead in trespasses and sins; such an one he himself is, and such he is like to continue, and not be written among the living in Jerusalem; or among those who die the second and eternal death, among the damned in hell; so Jarchi interprets it of the congregation of hell; and a large congregation that will be, but dreadful to have an abode with them. The words are rendered by the Septuagint, and the versions that follow that, "shall rest in the congregation of the giants"; which some interpret of devils, and others of the giants of the old world b, damned spirits: resting with them does not design peace and quietness, for there will be none there; but a fixed settled abode, in opposition to wandering, in the preceding clause.

b See Mede's Discourse 7. p. 32.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

congregation of the dead - The Rephaim (compare the Proverbs 2:18 note).

Remain - i. e., “He shall find a resting place, but it shall be in Hades.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 21:16. The man once enlightened, that wandereth out of the way of understanding, in which he had walked, shall remain - have a permanent residence - in the congregation of the dead; רפאים rephaim, the lost; either separate spirits in general, or rather the assembly of separate spirits, which had fallen from primitive rectitude; and shall not be restored to the Divine favour; particularly those sinners who were destroyed by the deluge. This passage intimates that those called rephaim are in a state of conscious existence. It is difficult to assign the true meaning of the word in several places where it occurs: but it seems to mean the state of separate spirits, i.e., of those separated from their bodies, and awaiting the judgment of the great day: but the congregation may also include the fallen angels. My old MS. Bible translates, The man that errith fro the wei of doctrine, in the felowschip of geantis schal wonnen.


 
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