Verse List for PROV 21:18

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=unclear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) A wicked person becomes the payment to free someone who does what’s right, ⇔ ≈ and a treacherous person to free a godly person.

OET-LV is_a _ransom for_person a _wicked_person and_in _place _of upright_people one _who_acts _treacherously.

ULT A ransom for the righteous, one is a wicked, one, ⇔ and instead of the upright, one who acts treacherously.

UST Wicked people will suffer instead of righteous people, ⇔  and treacherous people will suffer in place of upright people.

BSB & MSB The wicked [become] a ransom for the righteous, ⇔  and the faithless for the upright.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, ⇔  the treacherous for the upright.

NET The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, ⇔ and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.

LSV The wicked [is] an atonement for the righteous,
And the treacherous dealer for the upright.

FBV The wicked pay the price and not the good; those who are deceitful and not those who live right.[fn]

T4T ⇔  Wicked people bring on themselves the sufferings ⇔  that they were trying to cause righteous people to experience [DOU].

LEB • A ransom for the righteous is the wicked,
• and the faithless instead of the upright.

BBE The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

Moff The evil have to pay the penalty; ⇔  the faithless are punished, not the upright.

JPS The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; and the faithless cometh in the stead of the upright.

ASV The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; ⇔ And the treacherous cometh in the stead of the upright.

DRA The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

YLT The wicked [is] an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.

Drby The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and a treacherous [man] in the stead of the upright.

RV The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; and the treacherous cometh in the stead of the upright.
(The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; and the treacherous cometh/comes in the stead of the upright.)

SLT The unjust one a ransom for the just one, and he transgressing, instead of the upright.

Wbstr The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

KJB-1769 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

KJB-1611 The wicked shalbe a ransome for the righteous; and the transgressour for the vpright.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The vngodly shalbe a raunsome for the righteous: and the wicked for the iust.
(The ungodly shall be a ransom for the righteous: and the wicked for the just.)

Gnva The wicked shalbe a ransome for the iust, and the transgressour for the righteous.
(The wicked shall be a ransom for the just, and the transgressor for the righteous.)

Cvdl The vngodly shalbe geuen for the rightuous, & the wicked for the iust.
(The ungodly shall be given for the righteous, and the wicked for the just.)

Wycl An vnpitouse man schal be youun for a iust man; and a wickid man schal be youun for a riytful man.
(An impious/wicked man shall be given for a just man; and a wicked man shall be given for a rightful man.)

Luth Der GOttlose muß für den Gerechten gegeben werden und der Verächter für die Frommen.
(The godless_(ones) must for/in_favour_of the righteous_(ones) given become and the/of_the despiser for/in_favour_of the pious/devout_(one).)

ClVg Pro justo datur impius, et pro rectis iniquus.[fn]
(For just given impious/ungodly, and for straight unjust.)

UHB כֹּ֣פֶר לַ⁠צַּדִּ֣יק רָשָׁ֑ע וְ⁠תַ֖חַת יְשָׁרִ֣ים בּוֹגֵֽד׃ ‡

BrLXX Περικάθαρμα δὲ δικαίου ἄνομος.

BrTr and a transgressor is the [fn]abomination of a righteous man.