Proverbs 2:19
17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
20 So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
- KJV
- None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
- WEB
- None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
- ASV
- None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
- DARBY
- none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
- BLB
- Of all those coming to her, none will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
- ÅB
- de som går inn til henne, kommer aldri tilbake og når aldri livets stier.
- OTB
- Ingen som går til henne kommer tilbake, og de når ikke livets stier.
- B1930
- de som går inn til henne, kommer aldri tilbake og når aldri livets stier.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Read in contextPsalms 81:12
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
Read in contextHosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
Read in contextMatthew 19:24–26
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Read in contextHebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
Read in contextJeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
Read in contextProverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
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