Proverbs 21:16

¹⁴ A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

¹⁵ Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

¹⁷ He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

¹⁸ The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
KJV: The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
WEB: The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
ASV: The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
DARBY: The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom shall abide in the congregation of the dead.
BLB: A man wandering from the way of understanding will come to rest in the assembly of Rephaim.

ÅB: Det menneske som forviller seg fra klokskaps vei, skal havne blant dødningene.
OTB: Den som forviller seg fra forståelsens sti, vil hvile i de dødes selskap.
B1930: Det menneske som forviller sig fra klokskaps vei, skal havne blandt dødningene.

Hebrews 10:38
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
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Psalms 125:5
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
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Hebrews 10:26–27
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
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Zephaniah 1:6
and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
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Psalms 49:14
Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
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1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
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John 3:19–20
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
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Jude 1:12
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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