Proverbs 14:14

The backslider ¹  will be paid back ²  from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded ³  for his.

biblegateway Pro 14:14

The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good man rewarded for his.

biblegateway Pro 14:14

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his.

biblegateway Pro 14:14

Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.

biblegateway Pro 14:14

A mean person gets paid back in meanness, a gracious person in grace.

SABDAweb Pro 14:14

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

bibleoremus Pro 14:14

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

biblegateway Pro 14:14

The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.

biblegateway Pro 14:14

The backslider ¹  will be paid back ²  from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded ³  for his.

¹ tn Heb “a turning away of heart.” The genitive לֵב (lev, “heart”) functions as an attributive adjective: “a backslidden heart.” The term סוּג (sug) means “to move away; to move backwards; to depart; to backslide” (BDB 690 s.v. I סוּג). This individual is the one who backslides, that is, who departs from the path of righteousness.

² tn Heb “will be filled”; cf. KJV, ASV. The verb (“to be filled, to be satisfied”) here means “to be repaid,” that is, to partake in his own evil ways. His faithlessness will come back to haunt him.

³ tn The phrase “will be rewarded” does not appear in the Hebrew but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.