Dishonest Scales

Proverbs 11:31

In 11 translations

BSB: If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!LXX If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? Cited in 1 Peter 4:18
KJV: Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
WEB: Behold, the righteous shall be repaid on the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
ASV: Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!
LSV: Behold, the righteous is repaid in the earth, || Surely also the wicked and the sinner!
YLT: Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!
DBY: Behold, the righteous shall be requited on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.
DRC: If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.
GNV: Beholde, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: howe much more the wicked and the sinner?
JPS: Behold, the righteous shall be requited in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!
LXXE: If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?See 1 Pet.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: הֵ֣ן צַ֭דִּיק בָּאָ֣רֶץ יְשֻׁלָּ֑ם אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־רָשָׁ֥ע וְחוֹטֵֽא׃
LXX-Br: Εἰ ὁ μὲν δίκαιος μόλις σώζεται, ὁ ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἁμαρτωλὸς ποῦ φανεῖται;

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

1 Peter 4:17–18For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God? And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will…
Jeremiah 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,…
1 Corinthians 11:30–32That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined…
Proverbs 13:21Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
2 Samuel 12:9–12Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now,…
2 Samuel 7:14–15I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it…
1 Kings 13:24As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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