So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
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So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 1:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 15:27 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
- 2 Peter 2:3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
- Proverbs 23:3-4 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
- Jeremiah 22:17-19 But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.” Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’ He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
- Micah 2:1-3 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
- Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
- James 5:1-4 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
- 2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.” So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?” He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ” Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him. When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.” He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
- Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
- Micah 3:10-12 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.” Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Acts 8:19-20 saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
- 1 Timothy 3:3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
- 2 Samuel 18:11-13 Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.” The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’ Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
- Job 31:39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
- 1 Timothy 6:9-10 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- 2 Peter 2:14-16 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Whereby he concludeth, that the covetous man is a…
Whereby he concludeth, that the covetous man is a murderer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 1:19 So [are] the ways of every one…
Pro 1:19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Ver. 19. Which taketh away the life.] The greater wealth, the greater spoil awaits a man: as a tree with thick and large boughs, every man desires to lop him. Trithemius writeth that the Templars, at the request of Philip, King of France, were put down and extinct, upon the pretext of heresy; but indeed, because they were rich, and Philip sore longed after their possessions. Cyprus for its great wealth became a spoil to the Roman’s auri sacra fames, &c. Dεινος και παντολμος της φιλοχρηματιας ερως. {a} Covetousness is daring and desperate: it rides without reins, as Balaam did after the wages of wickedness, "the mammon of iniquity." {Luk 16:9}
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{a} Sixtus Rufus, Virgil, Isidor.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain So, as is expressed both in the foregoing and…
So, as is expressed both in the foregoing and following words,
are the ways; the actions and courses, which are so in the tendency and event of them.
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That is greedy of pain; that seeks gain by unrighteous and wicked practices. Which; either which greediness; or rather, which gain, by comparing the last words.
Taketh away the lives of the owners thereof; brings sudden and violent death upon those who had made themselves masters and possessors of such gain.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So are the ways of everyone that is greedy…
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 Mat 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).
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(z) T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 8. 2. (a) Misnah Sotah, c. 9. s. 9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Greedy - That seeks gain by wicked practices.
Greedy - That seeks gain by wicked practices.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. Which taketh away the life] A covetous…
Verse 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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are…
Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are destructive of true life.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Possessors. Of money. (Calmet) --- While they attempt to…
Possessors. Of money. (Calmet) --- While they attempt to invade another’s property, they ruin themselves, and come to the gallows. (Haydock)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. So are the ways — Such is the…
19. So are the ways — Such is the natural course and end of every one that is greedy of gain — Literally, a plunderer of plunder, (comp. Pro_15:29,) or rapacious plunderers of property, that do not hesitate to take the life of the owner of it. So the passage is commonly understood; but others, with some plausibility, render, It (that is, the unjust gain) takes away the life of its master or possessor. 1Ti_6:9-10.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. which taketh away] Rather, It (greed of gain)…
19. which taketh away] Rather, It (greed of gain) taketh away the life of them that have it. It is the destruction of those who are possessed by it. The same Heb. phrase, owner or lord of, is rendered him that hath it, in Pro_16:22, Comp. Pro_22:24, an angry man, A.V.; him that is given to anger, R.V. lit. a lord, or owner, of anger, and Pro_23:2, a man given to appetite, lit. an owner of appetite.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) So are the ways . . .—The conclusion…
(19) So are the ways . . .—The conclusion of the discourse. The same phrase occurs in Job_8:13.
Which taketh away . . .—That is, covetousness takes away the life of him who has this vice in his heart, who is, according to the Hebrew idiom, the “owner” of it. (Comp. similar expressions in Pro_22:24; Pro_23:2, where an “angry” man and a man “given to appetite” are literally an owner of anger and appetite.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So am the ways of every one that is…
So am the ways of every one that is greedy of gain. The epiphonema or moral of the preceding address. So are the ways, or such is the lot (as Delitzsch), or such are the paths (as Zockler), i.e. so deceitful, so ruinous, are the ways. Ke (chen,) is here used as a qualitative adverb.
Ways; twOjra (ar"khoth), the plural of jraO (orakh), a poet. word, equivalent in the first instance to "way," i.q. (derekh), and metaphorically applied to any one"s ways, his manner of life and its result, and hence lot, as in Job_8:12, and hence the expression coven the three preceding verses. That is greedy of gain (xB xebo, botsea batsa); literally, concupiscentis concupiscentium lucri; i.e. eagerly longing after gain; he who greedily desires riches (avari, Vulgate). Gain; batsa in pause, from xB. (betsa), which takes its meaning from the verb xB (batsa), "to out in pieces, to break," and hence means properly that which is cut or broken off and taken by any one for himself, and so unjust gain anything whatever fraudulently acquired, as in Pro_28:16, where it is translated "covetousness" (Authorized Version); cf. Isa_33:15 Pro_15:27. The idea of greed and covetousness enters largely into the word. Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. The pronoun "which" does not occur in the original. The nominative to "taketh away" (tQyi, yikkath) is "gain;" the "unjust gain." (betsa) takes away the life of its owners, i.e. of those who are under its power. Owners thereof (wOylB, b"alayo) does not necessarily imply that they are in actual possession of the unjust gain, but rather refers to the influence which the lust for gain exercises over them. The expression in this second hemistich does not mean that the rapacious take the life of their comrades who possess the gain, as Rabbi Salomon; nor as the Vulgate, "the ways of the avaricious man take away the lives of those who possess them." For the phrase, "taketh away the life," as importing a violent taking away, cf. Psa_31:13 1Ki_19:10. The sentiment of the verse is well expressed in 1Ti_6:10, "For the love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
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