Proverbs 10:7

In 11 translations

BSB

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

KJV

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

WEB

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

ASV

The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.

LSV

The remembrance of the righteous [is] for a blessing, || And the name of the wicked rots.

YLT

The remembrance of the righteous [is] for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.

DBY

The memory of the righteous [man] shall be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.

DRC

The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.

GNV

The memoriall of the iust shalbe blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rotte.

JPS

The memory of the righteous shall be for a blessing; but the name of the wicked shall rot.

LXXE

The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly man is extinguished.

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Original-language editions

WLC

זֵ֣כֶר צַ֭דִּיק לִבְרָכָ֑ה וְשֵׁ֖ם רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִרְקָֽב׃

LXX-Br

Μνήμη δικαίων μετʼ ἐγκωμίων, ὄνομα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς σβέννυται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 112:6Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
• Luke 1:48For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.
• Mark 14:9And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
• Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
• 2 Chronicles 24:16And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
• Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
• Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• Psalms 9:5–6You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever. The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
• 1 Kings 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
• 2 Kings 19:34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
• Ecclesiastes 8:10Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
• Job 27:23It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
• Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

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