Proverbs 21:16
Those who stop behaving like those who have good sense behave will soon discover that they have gone to the place where dead people are.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 49:14They are certain to die just like sheep, when a shepherd leads them away to be slaughtered. [PRS, MET] In the morning righteous people will rule over them, and then those wealthy people will die and their bodies will quickly decay in their graves; they will be where dead people are, far from their homes.
Proverbs 2:18If you go into houses of women who are like that, you will die when you are still young; the road to their houses leads to hell.
Proverbs 7:26She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
Proverbs 13:20Those who habitually associate with wise people become wise; those who ◄are close friends of/associate with► foolish people will ◄regret it/be ruined►.
Zephaniah 1:6I will get rid of all those who previously worshiped me but no longer do, those who no longer seek my help or ask me to tell them what they should do.”
Ephesians 2:1Formerly, because you were habitually sinning [DOU], you were ◄ spiritually dead/ as unable to please God as a corpse [MET] is►.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:16
15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Note, 1. It is a pleasure and satisfaction to good men both to see justice administered by the government they live under, right taking place and iniquity suppressed, and also to practise it themselves, according as their sphere is. They not only do justice, but do it with pleasure, not only for fear of shame, but for love of virtue. 2. It is a terror to wicked men to see the laws put in execution against vice and… Read the whole commentary →