Proverbs 10:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:32-33 : 32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. 33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
  • Prov 3:2 : 2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
  • Prov 9:11 : 11 For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
  • Ps 91:16 : 16 With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour.
  • Job 22:15-16 : 15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? 16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
  • Ps 21:4 : 4 Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him -- length of days, Age-during -- and for ever.
  • Ps 34:11-13 : 11 Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you. 12 Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
  • Eccl 7:17 : 17 Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Eccl 8:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

    13And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

  • Prov 19:23
    77%

    23The fear of Jehovah `is' to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.

  • Prov 14:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26In the fear of Jehovah `is' strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.

    27The fear of Jehovah `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

  • Prov 10:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28The hope of the righteous `is' joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

    29The way of Jehovah `is' strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

  • Prov 9:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10The commencement of wisdom `is' the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones `is' understanding.

    11For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

  • Ps 111:10
    74%

    10The beginning of wisdom `is' fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise `is' standing for ever!

  • Prov 10:24
    74%

    24The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.

  • Prov 23:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

    18For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

  • Ps 90:9-12
    4 verses
    72%

    9For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

    10Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

    11Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

    12To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

  • Ps 61:6
    71%

    6Days to the days of the king Thou addest, His years as generation and generation.

  • Prov 10:16
    71%

    16The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

  • Prov 8:13
    71%

    13The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

  • Prov 22:4
    71%

    4The end of humility `is' the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.

  • Job 15:20
    71%

    20`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

  • Eccl 7:15
    71%

    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Prov 15:16
    71%

    16Better `is' a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.

  • Ps 102:23
    71%

    23He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.

  • Prov 3:2
    70%

    2For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

  • Prov 28:14
    70%

    14O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

  • Eccl 7:17
    70%

    17Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

  • Ps 128:4
    70%

    4Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

  • Ps 112:10
    70%

    10The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

  • Ps 36:1
    70%

    1To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,

  • Prov 14:32
    70%

    32In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.

  • Prov 15:33
    70%

    33The fear of Jehovah `is' the instruction of wisdom, And before honour `is' humility!

  • Prov 20:2
    70%

    2The fear of a king `is' a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.

  • Ps 34:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

    12Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

  • Prov 10:26
    69%

    26As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So `is' the slothful to those sending him.

  • Prov 1:7
    69%

    7Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

  • Prov 14:2
    69%

    2Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted `in' his ways is despising Him.

  • Ps 37:10
    69%

    10And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

  • Job 28:28
    69%

    28And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'

  • Prov 3:7
    69%

    7Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

  • Ps 37:38
    69%

    38And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

  • Prov 10:7
    69%

    7The remembrance of the righteous `is' for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.

  • Prov 13:13
    69%

    13Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.

  • Ps 19:9
    69%

    9The fear of Jehovah `is' clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah `are' true, They have been righteous -- together.

  • Prov 2:5
    69%

    5Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

  • Job 21:7
    69%

    7Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

  • Ps 37:34
    69%

    34Look unto Jehovah, and keep His way, And He doth exalt thee to possess the land, In the wicked being cut off -- thou seest!