Proverbs 1 · Verse 16

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:16, King James Version

Proverbs 1:16 in other translations

BSBFor their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
WEBfor their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
ASVFor their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
YLTFor their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
DARBYfor their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
BBEFor their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
WebsterFor their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

What does Proverbs 1:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 1:10-19

10-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 For their feet run to evil - The whole of this verse is wanting in the Septuagint, and in the Arabic.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 1:10-19

Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth…

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Proverbs 1:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֣יkiforH3588
רַ֭גְלֵיהֶםRag.lei.hemfeet theirH7272
לָרַ֣עla.Ra'to <the> evilH7451
יָר֑וּצוּya.Ru.tzuthey runH7323
וִֽ֝ימַהֲר֗וּvi.ma.ha.Ruand they may make hasteH4116
לִשְׁפָּךְ\־lish.pokh-to shedH8210
דָּֽם\׃DambloodH1818

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 1:16

  • Isaiah 59:7

    Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

  • Proverbs 6:18

    An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

  • Proverbs 4:16

    For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Romans 3:5

    But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4:16; 6:18; Isa 59:7; Ro 3:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 1:15

    My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Proverbs 1:16

    For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Proverbs 1:17

    Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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Proverbs 1:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque sus pies correrán al mal, é irán presurosos á derramar sangre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		car leurs pieds courent au mal, et ils se hâtent pour verser le sang.
German
Elberfelder 1871		denn ihre Füße laufen dem Bösen zu, und sie eilen, Blut zu vergießen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt, et festinant ut effundant sanguinem.