Verse 21

Those who cause humanity to sin with a word, who set traps for the one who rebukes in the gate, and who twist justice by making the righteous nothing, will be judged.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    De som sår tvil hos mennesker med ord, setter feller for den som irettesetter i porten, og forkaster den rettferdige med uholdbare anklager.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    De som får en mann til å synde for et ord, og legger snarer for ham som irettesetter i porten, og bøyer de rettferdige bort fra et intet.

  • Norsk King James

    De som anklager en mann for et ord, og legger en snare for ham som handler rett i porten, og snur bort den rettferdige for noe uten betydning.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    de som dømmer en mann skyldig ved et ord, de som legger feller for den som irettesetter i porten, og jager den uskyldige bort.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    de som fordømmer et menneske med et ord, setter feller for den som irettesetter ved byporten, og ved tomme ord jager den rettferdige.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    De som gjør en mann skyldig for et ord, og legger en snare for ham som irettesetter i porten, og vender den rettferdige av for en bagatell.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    De som gjør en mann skyldig for et ord, og som legger en snare for ham som irettesetter ved byporten, og forvrenger den rettferdige for en bagatell.

  • En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

    De som gjør en mann skyldig for et ord, og legger en snare for ham som irettesetter i porten, og vender den rettferdige av for en bagatell.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    de som dømmer mann med ord, og de som fanger den som irettesetter i porten, og de som med tomhet vender rettferdige til side.

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    de som får en mann til å bli skyldig for et ord, de som stikker en felle for den som irettesetter i porten, og de som med falskhet forvrenger rett for den rettferdige.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    som holde et Menneske for en Synder for Ordets Skyld, og stille Snarer for den, som straffer i Porten, og fordrive den Retfærdige i det Øde.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    De som gjør et menneske skyldig for et ord, som legger en felle for ham som irettesetter i porten, og som avviser den rettferdige for et intet.

  • KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

    That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    de som gjør en mann til en forbryter i sin sak, og legger en snare for ham som refser i porten, og viker de rettferdige bort med en bagatell.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    De som får mennesker til å synde med ord, og for en irettesetter i porten legger de feller, og de vender rettferdige bort i tomhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    de som gjør en mann skyldig i sin sak, og legger en felle for den som irettesetter i porten, og som vender de rettferdige bort med ingenting.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    De som gir hjelp til en mann i en urett sak, og som legger et nett for føttene til den som avsier dom på torget, tar bort en manns rett uten grunn.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    soch as laboure to drawe me vnto synne: and yt disceaue him, which reproueth them in the gate, & soch as turne good personnes to vanite.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

Referenced Verses

  • Amos 5:10-12 : 10 They hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise the one who speaks with honesty. 11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine. 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy at the gate.
  • Amos 7:10-17 : 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, 'Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.' 11 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their own land.' 12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, 'Seer, go and flee to the land of Judah; there you can earn your bread and prophesy there.' 13 'But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.' 14 Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.' 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.' 16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.' 17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'
  • Mic 2:6-7 : 6 'Do not preach,' they preach. 'Do not preach about such things; disgrace will not overtake us.' 7 House of Jacob, is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His deeds? Do not my words do good to those who do right?
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Matt 22:15 : 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might trap him in his words.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him over to you?" So they counted out thirty pieces of silver for him.
  • Luke 11:53-54 : 53 While He was saying these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to question Him closely about many things, 54 lying in wait to catch Him in something He might say, to accuse Him.
  • Acts 3:14 : 14 You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.
  • Judg 12:6 : 6 they would say, "Say 'Shibboleth.'" And if he said 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand from Ephraim were killed.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread, a man will transgress.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The schemes of the wicked are evil; he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, 'Come, let's devise plans against Jeremiah, for instruction won't vanish from the priest, counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet. Come, let's attack him with our words, and let's not pay attention to anything he says.'
  • Jer 20:7-9 : 7 LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. 8 Whenever I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long. 9 But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. 10 I hear many whispering, 'Terror on every side! Report him! Let’s report him!' All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, 'Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.'
  • Jer 26:2-8 : 2 The LORD says, 'Stand in the courtyard of the LORD's house and declare to all the cities of Judah, who come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words I command you to speak to them. Do not omit a single word.' 3 Perhaps they will listen and turn, each one, from their evil ways. Then I will relent concerning the disaster that I plan to bring on them because of the evil they have done. 4 And you shall say to them, 'The LORD says: If you do not listen to Me and follow My law which I have set before you... 5 ...and listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have persistently sent to you (though you have not listened), 6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations on earth.' 7 And the priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. 8 And when Jeremiah finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, the prophets, and all the people seized him, saying, 'You shall surely die!'
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not live.