Proverbs 16:25 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.
English ASV
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.
English Amplified
There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
English EASY 2024
You may think that you are on a good, straight road. But in the end, that road may lead you to death.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
There is a way that seems right to people, but that way leads only to death.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
What you think is the right road may lead to death.
English God's Word - GW 1995
There is a way that seems right to a person, but eventually it ends in death.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it is the way of death.
English KJV 1611
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
English LSB
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
Sometimes a way seems right to a man, but the end of it leads to death!
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
There is a way that may seem right to a man. But in the end it leads to death.
English NIV
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
English NKJ 1982
There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
English NLT
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death.
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
Before every person there is a path that seems like the right one to take, but it leads straight to hell!
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Before every man there lies a wide and pleasant road he thinks is right, but it ends in death.
English Tyndale 1537
There is a way that men think to be right, but the end thereof leadeth unto death.