Ecclesiastes 11:18

Nova Vulgata

Impius facit opus fallax, seminanti autem iustitiam merces fidelis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Impius facit opus instabile, seminanti autem justitiam merces fidelis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Impius facit opus instabile,
seminanti autem justitiam merces fidelis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wicked: Proverbs 1:18, Proverbs 5:22, Job 27:13-23, Ecclesiastes 10:8, Isaiah 59:5-8, Ephesians 4:22

but: Proverbs 22:8, Psalms 126:5, Psalms 126:6, Hosea 10:12, Hosea 10:13, Galatians 6:8, Galatians 6:9, James 3:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:1 - and thy Exodus 1:20 - God Ruth 2:12 - recompense 2 Samuel 1:15 - Go near Psalms 18:20 - rewarded Psalms 19:11 - keeping Psalms 120:4 - Sharp Proverbs 11:24 - that scattereth Proverbs 14:8 - folly Ecclesiastes 11:1 - for Daniel 11:23 - work Matthew 5:12 - for great Mark 4:26 - as Romans 2:10 - to every 2 Corinthians 9:6 - He which soweth sparingly 2 Corinthians 9:10 - multiply Galatians 6:7 - for Ephesians 6:8 - whatsoever Colossians 3:24 - ye shall Hebrews 11:6 - a rewarder Hebrews 11:26 - for he had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The wicked worketh a deceitful work,.... Such a wicked man as before described; that neither enjoys the good things of life he has, nor suffers others to enjoy them; and all to accumulate riches, which are deceitful and perishing; and who abstains from meats, which God has created for use, under a pretence of religion, and so deceives his own soul; and indeed every sin which a wicked man commits is a deceitful work; it promises him that pleasure, or profit, or liberty, which it does not give him, and in the issue is the ruin of him; and so all false doctrines, propagated by deceitful workers, are deceitful works, by which they deceive the simple, and at last themselves; they "obtain a deceitful reward of [their] work", as Gussetius w renders it;

but to him that soweth righteousness; does acts of beneficence and liberality; see 2 Corinthians 9:9; and all other good works, or works of righteousness,

[shall be] a sure reward; according to what a man sows, and the manner in which he sows, so shall he reap, 2 Corinthians 9:6; or, "a reward of truth"; instead of being given up to believe a lie, he shall receive the love of the truth, and abide in it, which will bring him to eternal glory and happiness; he being chosen to it through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, 2 Thessalonians 2:10; and, instead of a deceitful reward, shall have a true, real, solid, and substantial one.

w Ebr. Comment. p. 692.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deceitful work - Work which deceives and disappoints the worker; in contrast with the “sure reward” of the second clause.

Omit “shall be” and render, “but he that soweth righteousness worketh a sure reward.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 11:18. Worketh a deceitful work — An unstable work; nothing is durable that he does, except his crimes.