Proverbios 1:19

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Tales son las sendas de todo el que es dado á la codicia, La cual prenderá el alma de sus poseedores.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Tales son los caminos de todo el que se beneficia por la violencia: que quita la vida de sus poseedores.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Tales son las sendas de todo el que es dado a la codicia, la cual quita la vida de sus poseedores.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Tales son las sendas de todo el que codicia la ganancia, la cual prender� la vida de sus poseedores.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every: Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 23:3, Proverbs 23:4, 2 Samuel 18:11-13, 2 Kings 5:20-27, Jeremiah 22:17-19, Micah 2:1-3, Micah 3:10-12, Habakkuk 2:9, Acts 8:19, Acts 8:20, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, James 5:1-4, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:14-16

taketh: Job 31:39, Ecclesiastes 5:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:20 - by laying 2 Samuel 16:3 - day Psalms 10:5 - His Proverbs 1:13 - General Proverbs 21:7 - robbery Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 22:12 - greedily James 4:2 - lust

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So [are] the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain,.... That is set upon getting riches in an unlawful way, by robberies and murder; his ways will end in the loss of his own blood and life, and in the loss of his immortal soul; this will be what his wicked ways and course of life will bring him to, and what will his gain profit him then? it would be of no use and service to him could he have gained the whole world;

[which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof: or who, even every one of those that are greedy of gain, and will be rich at any rate; such stick not to take away the life of the proper owners of that gain, or money they are greedy of, in order to get it into their own possession; and such wicked practices cannot fail of meeting with a just recompence of reward: or "which" covetous gain, or gain gotten in such a wicked manner, will be the cause of the life of the injurious masters and wrong possessors of it being taken away from them, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by God himself. These sins of robbery and murder are particularly instanced in, not only because other sins lead unto them, as sabbath breaking, drunkenness, and lewdness, and issue in temporal and eternal ruin; but because they were very common among the Jews at the time that Wisdom, or Christ, was here on earth: to which time the whole passage refers, as appears from the following verses; and that those sins were frequent then is manifest both from Scripture; see Matthew 27:38; and from the confessions of the Jews, who say z that forty years before the destruction of the temple the sanhedrim were obliged to remove from place to place, because that murderers increased, and they could not judge and condemn them, for fear of being murdered themselves; and it was because of this great increase they were obliged to stop the beheading of the red heifer a.

z T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 8. 2. a Misnah Sotah, c. 9. s. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are destructive of true life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:19. Which taketh away the life — A covetous man is in effect, and in the sight of God, a murderer; he wishes to get all the gain that can accrue to any or all who are in the same business that he follows-no matter to him how many families starve in consequence. This is the very case with him who sets up shop after shop in different parts of the same town or neighbourhood, in which he carries on the same business, and endeavours to undersell others in the same trade, that he may get all into his own hand.