Proverbs 29:24

In 11 translations

BSB

A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath, but does not testify.

KJV

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

WEB

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

ASV

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul; He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

LSV

Whoever is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, || He hears execration, and does not tell.

YLT

Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.

DBY

Whoso shareth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration, and declareth not.

DRC

He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.

GNV

He that is partner with a thiefe, hateth his owne soule: he heareth cursing, and declareth it not.

JPS

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

LXXE

He that shares with a thief, hates his own soul: and if any having heard an oath uttered tell not of it,

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Original-language editions

WLC

חוֹלֵ֣ק עִם־גַּ֭נָּב שׂוֹנֵ֣א נַפְשׁ֑וֹ אָלָ֥ה יִ֝שְׁמַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יַגִּֽיד׃

LXX-Br

Ὃς μερίζεται κλέπτῃ, μισεῖ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχήν· ἐὰν δὲ ὅρκου προτεθέντος ἀκούσαντες μὴ ἀναγγείλωσι,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Leviticus 5:1“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
• Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
• Proverbs 1:11–19If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. We will find all manner of precious…
• Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
• Psalms 50:18–22When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.…
• Proverbs 15:32He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
• Judges 17:2said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the…
• Mark 11:17Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
• Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
• Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.

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