Proverbs 21:16

WEB

¹⁶The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

KJV

¹⁶The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

BSB

¹⁶The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

FBV

¹⁶Anyone who wanders away from the path of understanding ends up with the dead.

Extra References

Psalms 125:5

⁵But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Hebrews 10:38

³⁸But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Psalms 49:14

¹⁴They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.Death ^[+] shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,far from ^[+] their mansion.

Zephaniah 1:6

⁶those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven’t sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

1 John 2:19

¹⁹They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Proverbs 2:18-19

¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. ¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

Proverbs 13:20

²⁰One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Jude 1:12

¹²These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Proverbs 7:26-27

²⁶for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. ²⁷Her house is the way to Sheol,^[+] going down to the rooms of death.