Proverbs 10:16 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
The wage of the righteous [is] for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
English ASV
The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.
English Amplified
The earnings of the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) lead to life, but the profit of the wicked leads to further sin. [Rom. 6:21; I Tim. 6:10.]
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
The earnings of the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) lead to life, but the profit of the wicked leads to further sin. [Rom. 6:21; I Tim. 6:10.]
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
The reward of the righteous is life; the wages of the wicked is punishment.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
The labour of a righteous [man] [tendeth] to life; the revenue of a wicked [man], to sin.
English EASY 2024
Righteous people receive life as their wages. Wicked people receive only punishment.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
What good people do brings life, but wicked people produce only sin.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
The reward for doing good is life, but sin leads only to more sin.
English God's Word - GW 1995
A righteous person's reward is life. A wicked person's harvest is sin.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
The labor of the righteous leads to life; the activity of the wicked leads to sin.
English KJV 1611
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
English LSB
The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
The wages of the righteous leads to life; the increase of the wicked leads to sin.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
The just man's recompense leads to life, the gains of the wicked, to sin.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
The reward which the righteous receive is life; the recompense which the wicked receive is judgment.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
People who do what is right earn life. But what sinners earn causes them to be punished.
English NIV
The wages of the righteous bring them life, but the income of the wicked brings them punishment.
English NKJ 1982
The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.
English NLT
The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
The lovers of God earn their wages for a life of righteousness, but the wages of the wicked are squandered on a life of sin.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
The good man's earnings advance the cause of righteousness. The evil man squanders his on sin.
English Tyndale 1537
The righteous laboureth to do good, but the ungodly useth his increase unto sin.