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Proverbs 11

Prov. 11:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
worketh
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
a deceitful
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
work
p`ullah (Hebrew #6468)
(abstractly) work
KJV usage: labour, reward, wages, work.
Pronounce: peh-ool-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 6466
: but to himf that soweth
zara` (Hebrew #2232)
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Pronounce: zaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
righteousness
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
shall be a sure
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
reward
seker (Hebrew #7938)
wages
KJV usage: reward, sluices.
Pronounce: seh'-ker
Origin: from 7936
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wicked.
Prov. 1:18• 18And they lay wait for their own blood;{HR}They lurk privily for their own lives. (Prov. 1:18)
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Prov. 5:22• 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked,{HR}And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. (Prov. 5:22)
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Job 27:13‑23• 13This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God,{HR}And the heritage of oppressors they receive from the Almighty.
14If his children multiply, [it is] for the sword,{HR}And his offspring have not enough of bread;
15His residue are buried in death, and their widows weep not.
16If he heap up silver as dust, and prepare clothing as clay,
17He prepareth, but the righteous shall put [it] on,{HR}And the innocent shall divide the silver.
18He hath built his house as a moth,{HR}And as a booth the watchman needeth.
19He lieth down, but shall not be gathered;{HR}He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20Terrors overtake him as waters,{HR}By night a tempest stealeth him away.
21An east wind taketh him up, and he is gone,{HR}And it sweepeth him out of his place;
22And it casteth at him, and spareth not;{HR}From its hand he would gladly flee.
23It clappeth its hands at him,{HR}And hisseth him out of his place.
(Job 27:13‑23)
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Eccl. 10:8• 8He that diggeth a pit falleth into it,{HR}And whoso breaketh through a fence,{HR}A serpent biteth him. (Eccl. 10:8)
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Isa. 59:5‑8• 5They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.
7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction [are] in their paths.
8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.
(Isa. 59:5‑8)
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Eph. 4:22• 22that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit, (Eph. 4:22)
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J. N. Darby Translation

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The wicked worketh a deceitful workl; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a work that deceiveth him."

W. Kelly Translation

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The wicked earneth deceitful wages,{HR}But he that soweth righteousness a sure reward.